America the anxious : how our pursuit of happiness is creating a nation of nervous wrecks / Ruth Whippman.
Whippman, Ruth, author.
2016
E169.12 .W455 2016 (Mapit)
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Title America the anxious : how our pursuit of happiness is creating a nation of nervous wrecks / Ruth Whippman.
Author Whippman, Ruth, author.
Edition First U.S. edition.
ISBN 9781250071521 (hardcover)
1250071526 (hardcover)
9781466882669
Published New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016.
Language English
Description 247 pages ; 22 cm
Call Number E169.12 .W455 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.097309/05
Summary The author embarks on a pilgrimage to investigate how the national obessession with happiness infiltrates all areas of life, from religion to parenting, from the workplace to academia. She attends a Landmark Forum self-help course, visits Zappos headquarters in Las Vegas (a "happiness city"), looks into the academic "positive psychology movement" and spends time in Utah with Mormons, officially America's happiest people.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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