Community Goes Hand-in-Hand with Authority?

Apparently that's the conclusion of Alan Ehrenhalt's The Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues of Community in America. There's some big chunks of excerpt on a faculty book recommendation page over at Wright State. It's several years old, but I don't recall hearing about it before. Apparently it examines the life of three neighborhoods in Chicago in the 1950's versus what's going on today. I'm going to have to look for this book at the library; it sounds fascinating.