| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Physical Description |
247 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
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 |
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. |
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National characteristics, American.
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Happiness -- United States.
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United States -- Civilization -- 21st century.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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