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From KQED.

From KQED. From KQED Public Radio in San Francisco.

I'm Michael Krasny.

Two decades ago, political scientist Robert Putnam's best-selling book, Bowling Alone, struck a nerve with its stark warning about loosening social and political cohesion in America.

In their new book, The Upswing, Putnam and co-author Shailen Romney Garrett offers solutions for improving civic life in a country beset by COVID-19

and a divisive election.

Putnam and Garrett joined for him to talk about the book

and share lessons from history about how the U.S. can recover social trust

and a collective national identity.

That's next after this news.

Welcome to this morning's forum. I'm Michael Krasny.

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