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Title America the anxious [electronic resource eBook] : how our pursuit of happiness is creating a nation of nervous wrecks / Ruth Whippman.
Publisher New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016.
Description 1 online resource
Edition First U.S. edition.


BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary A British journalist and documentary filmmaker describes her baffled encounters with America's culture of pursuing happiness at all costs, recounting her investigations into happiness-themed programs that have become part of a multibillion-dollar commercial industry.
Audience General adult.
System details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Format: Adobe EPUB eBook.
Format: Kindle Book.
Format: OverDrive Read.
Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle.
Other edition Original 9781250071521
Subject National characteristics, American.
Happiness -- United States.
United States -- Civilization -- 21st century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Genre Electronic books.
Other corporate author OverDrive, Inc.
ISBN 9781466882669
STANDARD # 98F96DF1-43A3-4A0D-BA9A-C83645783D4A OverDrive