. >> host: currently you are reading robertt putnam's the upswing and adam jacobs the year of the lord 1843. >> guest: at the upswing is the next book and put him is known for a book you wrote in 2,000 the script breakdown. he is one of the great social observers and it was supposed to be out this summer but i guess it's been delayed a little bit and at the end of the journalism of the course of the last century describing the path he says showed that coming together and pulling apart. a intensely individualistic in the beginning of the century that mobilized in the direction of solidarity in the middle of the 20th century and began to pull apart and now we are at another extreme is going to be a very important book and will be out in a few monthss i guess. alan jacobs is a into the suspect has written wonderful books about the intersection of intellectual life and theology and politics and society. this book was published a few years ago is about a group of thinkers in the final years of the second world war who tried to envision and imagine what the post-world war would look like. ro