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“The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again,” by Robert D. Putnam with Shaylyn Romney Garrett (Simon & Schuster, 2021)

There are many parallels between America’s Gilded Age of the 1890s and today’s unequal prosperity, political polarization and the emphasis on individual rights over the common good. Between these two eras came the upswing from the Gilded Age’s focus on the “I” to the “we,” starting with the social programs of the Grea

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