### Amazon.com Review In their eye-opening, soul-prodding look at the excess of American society, the authors of *Affluenza* include two quotations that encapsulate much of the book: T.S. Eliot's line "We are the hollow men / We are the stuffed men," which opens one of this book's chapters, and a q
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- Book ID
- 124420813
- Publisher
- American Sociological Association
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 153 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0092-055X
- DOI
- 10.2307/1319006
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