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Lurching Toward Happiness in America.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Boston Review BksPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (148 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262322898
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lurching Toward Happiness in AmericaDDC classification:
  • 306.09
LOC classification:
  • HN60 -- .F566 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Plumbing Unhappiness -- 1. Happiness Policy -- 2. E-Disharmony? -- 3. The Loneliness Scare -- 4. Is the Gender Revolution Over? -- 5. The Leisure Gap -- 6. How to Be Poor -- 7. Extremely Local -- Part II: Policy for a Happier America -- 8. The Good Life -- 9. Accidental Billionaire -- 10. Mind the Gap -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Boston Review Books.
Summary: Amid confusing and alarmist media claims about our changing culture, Claude Fischer sets the record straight on social trends in America.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Plumbing Unhappiness -- 1. Happiness Policy -- 2. E-Disharmony? -- 3. The Loneliness Scare -- 4. Is the Gender Revolution Over? -- 5. The Leisure Gap -- 6. How to Be Poor -- 7. Extremely Local -- Part II: Policy for a Happier America -- 8. The Good Life -- 9. Accidental Billionaire -- 10. Mind the Gap -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Boston Review Books.

Amid confusing and alarmist media claims about our changing culture, Claude Fischer sets the record straight on social trends in America.

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