HKS Affiliated Authors
Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Emeritus
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Crumbling American Dreams. Robert D. Putnam, August 3, 2013, Opinion. "My hometown — Port Clinton, Ohio, population 6,050 — was in the 1950s a passable embodiment of the American dream, a place that offered decent opportunity for the children of bankers and factory workers alike. But a half-century later, wealthy kids park BMW convertibles in the Port Clinton High School lot next to decrepit “junkers” in which homeless classmates live. The American dream has morphed into a split-screen American nightmare. And the story of this small town, and..." Link verified October 6, 2014