‘The Upswing’: From personal gain to common good and back again
Nov 10, 2020
2 minutes
A fundamental tension lies at the heart of the American experiment: Can a nation created to maximize individual freedom successfully pursue a common good?
Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett tackle this question in “The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again,” a thoughtful and highly readable account of the way that these competing values have played
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