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...study by Robert D. Putnam concludes that social cohesion is ultimately achievable even in countries with high levels of ethnic diversity. So the Harvard political scientist was bowled over this month when he found that his work was being praised by “racists and anti-immigrant activists”—with hundreds sending him complimentary e-mails...
...firearm and drugs, been in a serious motorcycle crash, gone broke, taken heroin, had a liver transplant and fathered six children, two of them as a sperm donor. He recounts his colorful story in his new book, Since Then: How I Survived Everything and Lived to Tell About It (Putnam), which will be published in November. TIME'S Andrea Sachs spoke with Crosby...
...Risk By Patricia Cornwell Putnam Adult...
...star professor at the Kennedy School of Government is joining forces with scholars at the University of Manchester to explore social change in the United States and the United Kingdom. Robert D. Putnam, the Malkin professor of public policy, served as dean of the Kennedy School from 1989 to 1991 and has advised leaders including Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. His newest undertaking, “Social Change: A Joint Project of Harvard and Manchester,” announced yesterday, involves transatlantic comparisons of civic engagement given the evolving workplace, increased immigration, and changing attitudes to religion, among other topics...
...taken American civic society from one that bowled alone to one that finds community by supporting candidates on thefacebook.com. The authors clog the text with numbers and names, quotations, and references to other sociological work. They question the pre-9/11 findings of Malkin Professor of Public Policy Robert Putnam and his famous warning about the disappearance of American civil society. Part leadership how-to and part sociological study, “Applebee’s America” may have tried to take too large a bite of analytical pie. The authors certainly drive home their points with statistical...