Introduction -- Part I: Plumbing Unhappiness -- 1. Happiness Policy -- 2. E-Disharmony? -- 3. The Loneliness Scare -- 4. Is the Gender Revolution Over? -- 5. The Leisure Gap -- 6. How to Be Poor -- 7. Extremely Local -- Part II: Policy for a Happier America -- 8. The Good Life -- 9. Accidental Billionaire -- 10. Mind the Gap -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Boston Review Books.
Summary
Amid confusing and alarmist media claims about our changing culture, Claude Fischer sets the record straight on social trends in America.
