In The Good Life and Its Discontents the economics columnist for Newsweek looks squarely at a society that has never had it so good yet never felt so bad. With an analysis that takes in history, economics, psychology, and popular culture, Robert J. Samuelson shows how the American Dream was transformed into an American fantasy whose inevitable failure has left millions of us anxious about our future. A New York Times Business Book Bestseller and a Business Week Best Book of the Year | The Good Life And Its Discontents by Robert J. Samuelson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters