Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Amazon Music | NYT Audio AppWe all know how the story unfolded from there.
Putnam, who has spent most of his career as a political scientist at Harvard, is now 83.
He has watched as the nation has become more divided, more lonely and less confident about the way forward.
[Laughs] I write about and talk about the importance of connections, but my wife actually does it.
In the long run, her work is going to have a longer half-life than mine, because those kids are going to be around long after people have forgotten anything about this Putnam.
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