The Pursuit of Happiness

The Pursuit of Happiness

ROBERT DARNTON

The idea of happiness has become so deeply embedded in American culture that it sometimes disappears from sight.

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The idea of happiness has become so deeply embedded in American culture that it sometimes disappears from sight. It is everywhere and nowhere, an implicit assumption that colors a world view, hardly an idea at all. But an idea it very much is, and, if seen from the perspective of the history of ideas, it has a long and impressive pedigree.

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