Better Together: Restoring the American Community - Couverture rigide

Putnam, Robert; Feldstein, Lewis; Cohen, Donald

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0743235460 ISBN 13 : 9780743235464

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Australia, 2004

Synopsis

Book by Putnam Robert D Feldstein Lewis

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Putnam, with the assistance of co-author Lewis Feldstein, who has a long and distinguished career in civic activism, visited a number of places across America where individuals and groups are engaged in unusual forms of social activism and civic renewal. These are people who are renewing their communities and investing in new forms of 'social capital.'
Approximately a dozen such stories of civic innovation are told in this book. They range from a mentoring and reading programme in Philadelphia that brings together retirees and primary school children to a revitalised neighbourhood association and revitalised neighbourhoods in Boston to a successful community organising effort in the impoverished Rio Grande Valley, and many other such stories. All across America such organizations are starting up and thriving, giving hope that the message of BOWLING ALONE has reached people and that civic institutions are taking new forms to adapt to new times and new needs.

Biographie de l'auteur

Robert D. Putnam is the Professor of International Peace at Harvard University. He is the authour of six previous books, and his articles have appeared in THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE AMERICAN PROSPECT as well as many other publications.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Australia
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0743235460
• ISBN 13: 9780743235464
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible