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America the anxious : how our pursuit of happiness is creating a nation of nervous wrecks / Ruth Whippman. by Whippman, Ruth, author. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016. Subjects National characteristics, American. ISBN:  9781250071521 : 1250071526 Description:  247 pages ; 22 cm Edition:  First U.S. edition. 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. Requests:  1 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hana P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 306.0973 Whippman Transit Request Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 306.0973 Wh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.0973 Wh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waikiki-Kapahulu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.0973 Wh Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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