
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
By Robert D. Putnam
June 16
National Humanities Medal-winning historian Robert D. Putnam compares the state of our currently divided nation with that of the early 20th century, when America began to shift from an individualistic mindset to a more egalitarian and cooperative one – and draws lessons from history to show how the nation might be able to do it again.