Philip Slater lives in Santa Cruz, California.
Todd Gitlin is professor of sociology at the University of
California/Berkeley.
"The Pursuit of Loneliness is still worth reading because it
honors the mission of sociology not to train a caste of knowers but
to contribute to society's knowledge of itself." – from the
introduction by Todd Gitlin
"If I had to select a single book by which to tell a stranger what
life in this country has become and why, it would be this one." –
Edgar Z. Friedenberg in The New York Review of Books
"A brilliant, sweeping and revelant critique ... An insightful,
well-written, and thought-provoking book that illumines each of the
many aspects of American culture that it touches." – Kenneth
Keniston in The New York Times
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