Upcoming Events at Online via Zoom
Tue Nov 17, 3:00 PM - Tue Nov 17, 4:00 PM
Online Event
Online Event
Online via Zoom
4400 University Dr, Fairfax, VA 22030
Community: Fairfax
Description
Fall for the Book festival event
Event Details
Deep and accelerating inequality; unprecedented political polarization; vitriolic public discourse; a fraying social fabric; public and private narcissism—Americans today seem to agree on only one thing: This is the worst of times.
But we’ve been here before. In a sweeping overview of more than a century of history, drawing on an inimitable combination of statistical analysis and storytelling, Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett analyze a remarkable confluence of trends that brought us from an “I” society to a “We” society and then back again.
But we’ve been here before. In a sweeping overview of more than a century of history, drawing on an inimitable combination of statistical analysis and storytelling, Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett analyze a remarkable confluence of trends that brought us from an “I” society to a “We” society and then back again.
