America the anxious : how our pursuit of happiness is creating a nation of nervous wrecks /
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"...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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| 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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| Physical Description: | 247 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781250071521 1250071526 |