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Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard
University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in American politics,
international relations, comparative politics, and public policy. He is the founder of The
Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America, a program that has brought together
leading practitioners and thinkers for a multi-year discussion to develop broad-scale,
actionable ideas to fortify our nation's civic connectedness. Before coming to Harvard in
1979, Putnam taught at the University of Michigan and served on the staff of the National
Security Council.
Raised in a small town in the Midwest, he graduated from Swarthmore College in 1963,
attended Balliol College, Oxford, and received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1970.
He is the recipient of honorary degrees from Swarthmore, Ohio State University,
Stockholm University, and the University of Antwerp. Putnam has authored or co-
authored ten books and more than thirty scholarly works, including Making Democracy
Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (1993), published in twelve languages and
praised by the Economist as "a great work of social science, worthy to rank alongside de
Tocqueville, Pareto and Weber." His other works include Double-Edged Diplomacy:
International Bargaining and Domestic Polítics (1993); Hanging Together: The Seven-
Power Summits (1984); Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies (1981);
Comparative Study of Political Elites (1976); and Beliefs of Politicians (1973). In June
2000 his study of civic engagement in the United States will be published as Bowling
Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Simon & Schuster).
A former Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, he has also served as
Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Director of the Center for
International Affairs, and Chairman of the Department of Government at Harvard. He sits
on the Advisory Council on Environmentally Sustainable Development at the World
Bank and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission
and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Putnam was recently
nominated as President of the American Political Science Association for 2001 - 2002.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
May 8, 2000
Robert Putnam
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Taubman 370
Cambridge, MA 02138
Dear Robert:
I wanted to thank you personally for speaking at the "Youth As Resources" session of the White
House Conference on Teenagers. Your remarks gave us all food for thought. As we put the
conference report together, we will be sure to make good use of your presentation.
I hope our paths will cross again soon.
Sincerely,
Deputy Assistant to the President and
Kuley Shirley Sagawa
Deputy Chief of Staff to the First Lady
I enjoyed your remails very much