Topic: Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
Description: Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis is a groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility.
Bio: Robert Putnam is a best-selling author, consultant to three American presidents, and currently, the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. He has written fourteen books, translated into more than twenty languages, including Bowling Alone and Making Democracy Work, both among the most cited publications in the social sciences in the last half century.