Happier?: The History of a Cultural Movement That Aspired to Transform America

Horowitz, Daniel

ISBN 10: 019065564X / ISBN 13: 9780190655648

Published by Oxford University Press, 2017

Seller Inventory # 019065564X-3-35936012

Synopsis:

Provides the first history of the origins, development, and impact of the shift in how Americans - and now many around the world - consider the human condition.

About the Author: Daniel Horowitz is the Mary Huggins Gamble Foundation Chair and Professor of American Studies Emeritus at Smith College. He is a historian whose work focused on the history of consumer culture and social criticism in the U.S. during the 20th century. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Among his publications are a biography of Betty Friedan and three books on how American and European writers, from the 1830s to the late twentieth century wrestled with the onsequences of affluence.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Happier?: The History of a Cultural Movement...
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Good