Bowling Alone
Subtitle: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: June 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780684832838
Subjects: Cultural studies; Social groups & communities; United States; Social Science; Community; Social Interaction; United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); Sociology - General; Sociology; USA; Social change; Popular Culture - General; Current Events / American; United States - 20th Century; 1945-; 20th century; History; Social conditions
First sentence: NO ONE IS LEFT from the Glenn Valley, Pennsylvania, Bridge Club who can tell us precisely when or why the group broke up, even though its forty-odd members were still playing regularly as recently as 1990, just as they had done for more than half a century.