The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement

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Samuelson traces our collective malaise to a sense of entitlement - an expectation that someone, whether big Government or Big Business, should guarantee us a secur e job, rising living standards, social harmony, & personal f ulfilment. '

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Robert J. Samuelson is a columnist fortheWashington Post.He began his journalism career as a reporter for the Post in 1969. He is the author ofThe Great Inflation and Its Aftermath; The Good Life and Its Discontents- The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement;andUntruth- Why the Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong,a collection of his columns. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Judy Herr. They have three children.