![]() In 2012, President Obama awarded Putnam the National Humanities Medal, the nation’s highest honor for contributions to the humanities. His groundbreaking “ Bowling Alone” research - which demonstrated that levels of American community connections were in decline over the past half-century - rocketed Putnam to national fame in the late 1990s, earning him the moniker “the poet laureate of civil society” and the ear of presidents, religious leaders, and tech founders over the coming decades. Author of fourteen books, translated into twenty languages, his work focuses on asking big questions about American society and deploying immense, creative studies and analyses to unlock answers. Putnam is America’s preeminent political scientist - and one of the most widely read and cited social scientists living today. ![]()
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