The vanishing neighbor : the transformation of American community /

Identifies what the author sees as an epochal shift in the structure of American life, a shift unnoticed by many. Routines that once put doctors and lawyers in touch with grocers and plumbers, interactions that encouraged debate and cultivated compromise, have changed dramatically since the postwar...

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Main Author: Dunkelman, Marc J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a Introduction: From one Queen City to the next -- Pt. 1: Rumblings. The warning ; The third wave ; The Chinatown bus effect ; The big climb ; Conformity comes full circle -- Pt. 2: The missing rings. A brief history of American community ; Bands, villages, and tribes ; The search for affirmation ; The missing rings ; Exit Tocqueville ; And now for something completely different -- Pt. 3: America explained. Valuable inefficiency ; The roots of deliberation ; The giant sucking sound ; The marshmallow test -- Conclusion: The crisis of American exceptionalism. 
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