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America the Anxious
- How Our Pursuit of Happiness Is Creating a Nation of Nervous Wrecks
- By: Ruth Whippman
- Narrated by: Ruth Whippman
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 77
Are you happy? Right now? Happy enough? As happy as everyone else? Could you be happier if you tried harder? After she packed up her British worldview (that most things were basically rubbish) and moved to America, journalist and documentary filmmaker Ruth Whippman found herself increasingly perplexed by the American obsession with one topic above all others: happiness. The subject came up everywhere: at the playground swings, at the meat counter in the supermarket, and even at the gynecologist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Makes a very intelligent and interesting case
- By Tizita E. on 02-17-17
- America the Anxious
- How Our Pursuit of Happiness Is Creating a Nation of Nervous Wrecks
- By: Ruth Whippman
- Narrated by: Ruth Whippman
Eh
Reviewed: 02-04-21
Intellectually dishonest, which would be fine except that it's not very funny. the author seems to know where she's going from page one but acts like she doesn't and is more accusatory than insightful.
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