David Keyes

Ralph Keyes … has written a very perceptive, very honest and very personal book on a great American malaise, the obsession with the loss of community and the search to regain or replace what has been lost.

Keyes has written a thought-provoking book — one that should be read by all who are interested in rebuilding society.

The author — a former newspaperman — diagnoses the problem of our failing sense of community in a most readable way.

In We, the Lonely People, Ralph Keyes describes and laments the contemporary evidence of our loss of community. His catalog is extensive, and he presents it with imagination,. concern, poignancy and humor.

Keyes writes with perception, humor and hard-won wisdom. His book is hopeful and constructive, coming at a time when it is sorely needed.

Mr. Keyes regards this book as comprising “optimistic comments on marriage and community.” His view is too modest. It is actually a series of unusually perceptive and entertaining chapters on the cultural and emotional phenomena of our time, from shopping centers and Holiday Inns to survival in an urban environment. The unifying factor among these …