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Title:
Rich, free, and miserable : the failure of success in America / John Brueggemann.
Author:
Brueggemann, John, 1965-
Publication Information:
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010.
Call Number:
HN90.M6 B783 2010
Abstract:
Explores why so many people are struggling, both emotionally and financially, in the United States, which is supposed to be one of the richest countries in the world.
ISBN:
9781442200937
Physical Description:
x, 233 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Introduction -- Missing the forest and most of the trees: what's useful and what's not in current conversations -- Some explanations -- Social change and continuity in U.S. history -- Triumph of the market -- Economic life: winning the rat race -- Civil life: cool iPods, rolling stops, and fighting dads -- Family life: frenzy and atomization -- Resetting the moral compass.
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