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On Paradise Drive

How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense

By David Brooks

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| Paperback | 9780743227391

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Take a look at Americans in their natural habitat: guys shopping for barbecue grills, doing that special walk men do when in the presence of lumber; superefficient soccer Ubermoms who chair school auctions, organize PTAs, and weigh less than their kids; and suburban chain restaurants, which if tContinue

Take a look at Americans in their natural habitat: guys shopping for barbecue grills, doing that special walk men do when in the presence of lumber; superefficient soccer Ubermoms who chair school auctions, organize PTAs, and weigh less than their kids; and suburban chain restaurants, which if they merged would be called Chili's Olive Garden Hard Rock Outback Cantina. Are we as shallow as we look? Many around the world see us as the great bimbos. Sure, Americans work hard and are energetic, but that is because we are money-hungry and don't know how to relax.

But if you probe deeper, you find that we behave the way we do because we live under the spell of paradise. We are the inheritors of a sense of limitless possibilities, raised to think in the future tense and to strive toward the happiness we naturally accept.

On Paradise Drive, at once serious and comic, describes this distinct American future-mindedness that shapes our personalities and underlies our beliefs.

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  • Bookreporter.com - ON PARADISE DRIVE by David Brooks

    ON PARADISE DRIVE: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense David Brooks Simon & Schuster Social Science ISBN: 0743227387 As you drive through this great land of ours (if you can afford the price of gas, that is), consider what kind of A ... (read full critics)

    bookreporter published on Wed, 1 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 320 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0743227395
  • ISBN-13: 9780743227391
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Pub date: May 24, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
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