An important 2001 book on community in America:
| Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam / 2001 |
Some classics in this topic:
![]() | Habits of the Heart : Individualism and Commitment in American Life Robert Neelly Bellah (Editor), et al Paperback / Published 1996 |
and to read with Habits of the Heart -- extension and critique of its ideas:
Community in America : The Challenge of Habits of the Heart
Charles H. Reynolds, Ralph Norman (Editor)
Hardcover / Published 1988
| Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville, Richard D. Heffner (Editor) |