12/13/2020
Review of Robert Putnam’s The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again Books by Walter G. Moss
Walter G. Moss is a professor emeritus of history at Eastern Michigan University, a Contributing Editor of HNN, and author of An Age of Progress? Clashing Twentieth-Century Global Forces (
2008). For a list of his recent books and online publications click here. The Awakening, Hy Mayer, Puck
, Feb. 20, 1915
It is still a time of great political polarization. A few weeks after our 2020 elections, a majority of polled Republicans, riled up by President Trump, remained convinced that he “rightfully won.” At such a time, a book with the title