Happiness in America: a cultural history

✍ Scribed by Lawrence R. Samuel

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 133 KB
• Edition: 4
• Category: Fiction
• City: United States,United States.
• ISBN: 1538115778

✦ Synopsis

Much interest currently revolves around happiness in America, so much so that one could reasonably argue that there is a "happiness movement" afoot. The wide range of arenas in which happiness intersects reflects the subject's centrality in everyday life in America these past one hundred years. Happiness in America charts the course of happiness within American culture over the past century, and concludes that most Americans have not had success becoming appreciably happier people despite considerable efforts to do so.
Rather than follow a linear path, happiness has bobbed and weaved over the decades, its arc or trajectory a twisting and unpredictable one. Happiness has also both shaped and reflected our core values, with its expression at any given time a key indicator of who we are as a people. The book thus adds a missing and valuable piece to our understanding of American culture.
Beyond serving as the definitive guide to happiness in this country, Happiness in...

✦ Subjects

United States