America the anxious : how our pursuit of happiness is creating a nation of nervous wrecks / Ruth Whippman.
By: Whippman, Ruth [author.].
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016Edition: First U.S. edition.Description: 247 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781250071521 (hardcover).Subject(s): National characteristics, American | Happiness -- United States | United States -- Civilization -- 21st century | United States -- Social conditions -- 21st centuryGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | E169.12 .W455 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000007863 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Coming to America: obsessed with happiness, but nobody's happy -- Personal journey? it's not all about you -- Happiness for sale: self-help America -- Workaholics -- "I don't care as long as he's happy": dispatches from the parenting happiness rat race -- God's plan of happiness -- I'm not a happy person, I just play one on facebook -- Positive psychology (or if you're not happy, it's your own fault, you lazy schmuck) -- Star-spangled happy.