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

by Robert D. Putnam

Like Dylan, the Beatles in the early 1960s sang in harmony about togetherness—“I Want to Hold Your Hand” (1963); “All You Need Is Love” (1967); “With a Little Help from My Friends” (1967). But already by 1966 they had become more attuned to isolation and alienation, when they wrote of Eleanor Rigby and Father McKenzie: “All the lonely people / Where do they all come from?”