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Dear Friends,
You are cordially invited to a special event with authors Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett—hosted by Eric Liu of Citizen University and The Aspen Institute’s Citizenship and American Identity Program.
Deep and accelerating inequality. Unprecedented political polarization. Vitriolic public discourse. A fraying social fabric. Public and private narcissism.
Sound familiar? In the United States, we have actually been here before—a time known as the Gilded Age. And yet throughout the late 1800s, America became more egalitarian, more cooperative, and more generous. It was a society on the upswing. Join us for a conversation about the parallels of this era to today’s moment in time.
In their new book, The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again, authors Authors Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett discuss this pivotal time in American history and what lessons we can learn for the challenges of today.
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