Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis Audiobook (Free)

A New York Instances bestseller and “a separate, urgent” (The New Yorker) study of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today get the chance for upwards mobility.

Central to the idea of America is the principle that people certainly are a nation of opportunity. But during the last quarter century we have seen a disturbing “opportunity space” emerge. We Us citizens have always thought that those who have skill and try hard will succeed, but about OUR CHILDREN: The American Desire in Crisis this central tenet from the American Dream seems no more true or leastwise, much less true than it had been.

In Our Children, Robert Putnam offers an individual and authoritative look at this fresh American crisis, beginning with the example of his senior high school class of 1959 in Interface Clinton, Ohio. Almost all those students continued to lives better than those of their parents. But their children and grandchildren possess faced diminishing potential customers. Putnam tells the story of lessening opportunity through poignant lifestyle stories of rich, middle income, and poor children from towns and suburbs in the united states, brilliantly combined with the latest social-science research.

“A masterful quantity” (Financial Times), OUR CHILDREN provides a disturbing accounts of the American desire that’s “thoughtful and persuasive” (The Economist). OUR CHILDREN offers a uncommon combination of individual testimony and strenuous proof: “No one can finish this reserve and feel complacent about equal chance” (The New York Times Publication Review).