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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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November 18, 2022
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December 2, 2022
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Spencer
Aug 27, 2020 rated it really liked it
LOVED this book. So captivating.
Does it feel like a professor is writing it? Yes. Does it feel like you took a class on sociology? Yes. Does this book come with charts and figures of data? Yes. Did I ever feel bored? Hell No.

Robert does a fantastic job of taking decades of data and putting it together to an easily understandable way. He forms great hypotheses, backed with data, to show where he thinks society and culture will go if we do not change our course.

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