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

by Robert D. Putnam

Michael Harrington’s The Other America: Poverty in the United States (published in March 1962) helped to start the Great Society. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (published in September 1962) generated a half century of environmentalism. James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time (published in January 1963) eloquently implored Americans to transcend “the Negro Problem” and foreshadowed the grim racial strains of the next half century.45 Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (published in February 1963) inspired a new feminism