Host Sam Hopkins (’61) Invites you to hear
Robert D. Putnam, Malkin Research Prof. of Public Policy
and former Dean of the Harvard JFK School of Government,
Speak About His New Book:

The Upswing: How America Came Together
a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again 

Nationally honored as a leading humanist and a renowned social scientist, he has written fifteen books, including the bestselling Our Kids and Bowling Alone, and has consulted for the last four US Presidents. In 2012, President Obama awarded him the National Humanities Medal, the nation’s highest honor for contributions to the humanities. His research program, the Saguaro Seminar, is dedicated to fostering civic engagement in America.

Written with Shaylyn Romney Garrett, The Upswing is a fresh, data-based portrait of the last 125 years of our nation’s history and shows how we have gone from an individualistic “I” society to a more communitarian “We” society, and then back again—and how we can learn from that experience to become a stronger, more unified nation today. 

He draws inspiring lessons for our time from an earlier era, when a dedicated group of reformers righted the ship, putting us on a path to becoming a society once again based on community.   

Shaylyn Romney Garrett is a writer and changemaker who previously collaborated with Putnam on American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. She is a Founding Contributor at Weave: The Social Fabric Project, an Aspen Institute initiative. Shaylyn holds a BA magna cum laud in Government from Harvard and is a returned Peace Corps volunteer.  

Saturday, November 14^th, from 1 pm to 3 pm Eastern

RSVP to Tom Blodgett by Friday, November 10^th with Putnam in your subject line 

We will send you the Zoom log-in information a few days before the Event.

Thank you.  Hope to see you there.