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    Free Time
    The Forgotten American Dream

    Benjamin Hunnicutt (Author)

    9781439907146

    Hardback, published 11 January 2013

    250 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.524 kg

     "Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt's new book could hardly be more timely.  His central theme--that the American dream once was not confined merely to ever growing levels of abundance--is all the more relevant in an era of climate science denial and anti-environmentalism of various sorts. . .  I had a hard time putting Free Time down."--John Buell, author of Politics, Religion, and Culture in an Anxious Age
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    A magisterial overview of the history of the fight for leisure in the United States

    Preface

    Introduction: Higher Progress-the Forgotten American Dream
    1 The Kingdom of God in America: Progress as the Advance of Freedom
    2 Labor and the Ten-Hour System
    3 Walt Whitman: Higher Progress at Mid-century
    4 The Eight-Hour Day: Labor from the Civil War to the 1920s
    5 Infrastructures of Freedom
    6 Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Dream
    7 Challenges to Full-Time, Full Employment
    8 Labor Turns from Shorter Hours to Full-Time, Full Employment
    9 Higher Progress Fades, Holdouts Persist
    10 The Eclipse of Higher Progress and the Emergence of Overwork

    Notes
    Index
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