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The lonely American
drifting apart in the twenty-first century
By Olds, Jacqueline & Schwartz, Richard B.
- ISBN
- 978-0-80700-034-2
- Publisher
- Boston : Beacon Press, c2009.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2008
Like seminal works such as Robert D. Putnam's Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character, and Philip Slater's The Pursuit of Loneliness, this recent addition to the sociological and psychological literature on loneliness is a substantive contribution. Coauthors Olds and her husband, Schwartz (both associate clinical professors of psychiatry, Harvard Medical Sch.), rea...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
