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Contents
Chapter 1
THE AMERICAN DREAM: MYTHS AND REALITIES
Chapter 2
FAMILIES
Chapter 3
PARENTING
Chapter 4
SCHOOLING
Chapter 5
COMMUNITY
Chapter 6
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
The Stories of Our Kids
JENNIFER M. SILVA
and
ROBERT D. PUTNAM
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Notes
Index
Rosemary, for remembrance
Chapter 1
THE AMERICAN DREAM: MYTHS AND REALITIES
I went back to Ohio, but my city was gone.
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If I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities in the world.
In the particular is contained the universal.
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MY HOMETOWN WAS, IN THE
1950s, a passable embodiment of the American Dream, a place that offered decent opportunity for all the kids in town, whatever their background. A half century later, however, life in Port Clinton, Ohio, is a split-screen American nightmare, a community in which kids from the wrong side of the tracks that bisect the town can barely imagine the future that awaits the kids from the right side of the tracks. And the story of Port Clinton turns out to be sadly typical of America. How this transformation happened, why it matters, and how we might begin to alter the cursed course of our society is the subject of this book.
The most rigorous economic and social history now available suggests that socioeconomic barriers in America (and in Port Clinton) in the 1950s were at their lowest ebb in more than a century: economic and educational expansion were high; income equality was relatively high; class segregation in neighborhoods and schools was low; class barriers to intermarriage and social intercourse were low; civic engagement
and social solidarity were high; and opportunities for kids born in the lower echelon to scale the socioeconomic ladder were abundant.
Though small and not very diverse racially, Port Clinton in the 1950s was in all other respects a remarkably representative microcosm of America, demographically, economically, educationally, socially, and even politically. (Ottawa County, of which Port Clinton is county seat, is the bellwether county in the bellwether state of the United States—that is, the county whose election results have historically been closest to the national outcome.
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) The life stories of my high school classmates ............

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