A nation of strangers

by Vance Oakley Packard

Vance Packard, one of our most incisive social commentators, in this book deals with an urgent the mass uprooting and the fragmentation of our society, which is turning into a "nation of strangers". We are living in a continually changing environment, fast relinquishing a basic human a sense of community. Forty million Americans now lead feebly rooted lives. At least a fifth of all Americans move one or more times a year, and the pace is increasing. What new institutions is this rootlessness creating.? What is its impact on our values, our behavior, our emotional well-being?

356 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published January 1, 1974