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109: Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam

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The Gilded Age in the Progressive Era

"We've changed our environment faster than we have changed ourselves," he writes. "The old strands of social connections We're being destroyed and that is totally where we're at now." He says the 21st century version of the boy scouts will draw people back into community, but it's not going to be Facebook.

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