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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
by Robert Putnam (reviewed by John Atlas).

Bowling Alone
(reviewed by Jerry Kloby).

The Connection Gap: Why Americans Feel So Alone
by Laura Pappano.

The Decline of American Power
by Immanuel Wallerstein
 
Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age
by Michael H. Shuman.

Going Public: An Inside Story of Disrupting Politics as Usual
by Michael Gecan.

The Great Good Place
by Ray Oldenburg.

Habits of the Heart
by Robert Bellah, et al.

Hope, Human and Wild (True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth)
by Bill McKibben.

Lives of Moral Leadership
by Robert Coles.

The Local-Global Grassroots Connection by Jerry Kloby
     Review of Unmaking Goliath by James DeFilippis and
     Contours of Descent by Robert Pollin. Published in Shelterforce, March/April 2005.

Masters of Illusion: The World Bank and The Poverty of Nations
by Catherine Caufield.

Mollie's Job: A Story of Life and Work on the Global Assembly Line
by William M. Adler.

Overruling Democracy
by Jamin Raskin.

The Overworked American
by Juliet Schor.

The Paradox of Democracy
by John B. Judis.

A Place for Us: How to Make Society Civil and Democracy Strong
by Bejamin R. Barber. See also "Civil Society and Democracy at Crossroads" published in Shelterforce.

Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty First Century
by Peter Drier, John Mollenkopf and Todd Swanstrom.

Wealth Gap Woes a review of Shifting Fortunes: The Perils of the Growing American Wealth Gap by Chuck Collins, Betsy Leondar-Wright and Holly Sklar. (Review published in Monthly Review).  

The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A Twenty-Five Year Landmark Study by Judith S.Wallerstein, Julie Lewis, and Sandra Blakeslee.
 

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