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Our Kids - The American Dream in Crisis (Paperback)
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Our Kids - The American Dream in Crisis (Paperback)
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List price R353
Loot Price R290
Discovery Miles 2 900
You Save R63 (18%)
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A New York Times bestseller and "a passionate, urgent" (The New
Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the
bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have
the opportunity for upward mobility. Central to the very idea of
America is the principle that we are a nation of opportunity. But
over the last quarter century we have seen a disturbing
"opportunity gap" emerge. We Americans have always believed that
those who have talent and try hard will succeed, but this central
tenet of the American Dream seems no longer true or at the least,
much less true than it was. In Our Kids, Robert Putnam offers a
personal and authoritative look at this new American crisis,
beginning with the example of his high school class of 1959 in Port
Clinton, Ohio. The vast majority of those students went on to lives
better than those of their parents. But their children and
grandchildren have faced diminishing prospects. Putnam tells the
tale of lessening opportunity through poignant life stories of
rich, middle class, and poor kids from cities and suburbs across
the country, brilliantly blended with the latest social-science
research. "A truly masterful volume" (Financial Times), Our Kids
provides a disturbing account of the American dream that is
"thoughtful and persuasive" (The Economist). Our Kids offers a rare
combination of individual testimony and rigorous evidence: "No one
can finish this book and feel complacent about equal opportunity"
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