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

by Robert D. Putnam

As early as 1623 the English poet John Donne penned the original communitarian epigram: “No man is an island, entire of itself… any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”