Robert Putnam recommends 6 books on America's swinging ideology

The author recommends works by Alexis de Tocqueville, Louise Knight, and more

Robert D. Putnam is the author of Bowling Alone and other influential state-of-the-nation volumes. His latest, co-written with Shaylyn Romney Garrett, is The Upswing, which argues that we are historically due for a turn away from individualism.

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1835).

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