President's Book Club: About the Author

Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. Professor Putnam is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the British Academy, and past president of the American Political Science Association. In 2006, Putnam received the Skytte Prize, the world's highest accolade for a political scientist, and in 2012, he received the National Humanities Medal, the nation’s highest honor for contributions to the humanities. Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis is his fourteenth book.

Other selected works by Robert D. Putnam:

• American grace : how religion divides and unites us, New York : Simon & Schuster, c2010.
• Better together : restoring the American community, New York : Simon & Schuster, c2003.
• Democracies in flux : the evolution of social capital in contemporary society, Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Disaffected democracies : what's troubling the trilateral countries? Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2000.
• Bowling alone : the collapse and revival of American community, New York : Simon & Schuster, c2000.
• Making democracy work : civic traditions in modern Italy, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1993.
• Hanging together : the seven-power summits, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1984.

Biographical Links:

• Robert D. Putnam -Homepage
• Robert D. Putnam -Harvard University Department of Government
• Why ‘Our Kids’ Aren't Still Winning Today -Interview with Tom Ashbrook, On Point on WBUR Boston
• Robert Putnam on Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis -Interview with Rich Fahle, 2015 L.A. Times Festival of Books, Detroit Public Television
• 'Bowling Alone' Author Tackles The American Dream -Interview with Scott Simon, Weekend Edition on NPR