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Author Dunkelman, Marc J., author.

Title The vanishing neighbor : the transformation of American community / Marc J. Dunkelman.

Publication Info. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]

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 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  307.0973 DUNKELMAN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  307.0973 DUNKELMAN    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  307.0973 DU    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xx, 291 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-274) and index.
Contents From one Queen City to the next -- Rumblings. The warning ; The third wave ; The Chinatown bus effect ; The big climb ; Conformity comes full circle -- The missing rings. A brief history of American community ; Bands, villages, and tribes ; The search for affirmation ; The missing rings ; Exit Tocqueville ; And now for something completely different -- America explained. Valuable inefficiency ; The roots of deliberation ; The giant sucking sound ; The marshmallow test -- The crisis of American exceptionalism.
Summary "Identifies [what the author sees as] an epochal shift in the structure of American life--a shift unnoticed by many. Routines that once put doctors and lawyers in touch with grocers and plumbers--interactions that encouraged debate and cultivated compromise--have changed dramatically since the postwar era. Both technology and the new routines of everyday life connect tight-knit circles and expand the breadth of our social landscapes, but they've sapped the commonplace, incidental interactions that for centuries have built local communities and fostered healthy debate. The disappearance of these once-central relationships ... lies at the root of America's economic woes and political gridlock"--Amazon.com.
Subject Communities -- United States.
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
United States -- Civilization -- 21st century.
Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
Communities. (OCoLC)fst01430092
Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
Social history. (OCoLC)fst01122498
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 2000 - 2099
ISBN 9780393063967 (hardcover) $27.95
0393063968 (hardcover)
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