Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

by Robert D. Putnam

Book Overview

A groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone : why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility. It's the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success. This is the America we believe in-a nation of opportunity, constrained only by ability and effort. But during the last twenty-five years we have seen a disturbing "opportunity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476769893
• ISBN13: 9781476769899
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"