{"product_id":"free-time-the-forgotten-american-dream-hardback-9781439907146","title":"Free Time; The Forgotten American Dream (Hardback) 9781439907146","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFree Time\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Forgotten American Dream\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBenjamin Hunnicutt (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781439907146\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 11 January 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e250 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.524 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \"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\u003ci\u003e Free Time\u003c\/i\u003e down.\"--John Buell, author of \u003ci\u003ePolitics, Religion, and Culture in an Anxious Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ?\u003cbr\u003e ?\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA magisterial overview of the history of the fight for leisure in the United States\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Higher Progress-the Forgotten American Dream\u003cbr\u003e1 The Kingdom of God in America: Progress as the Advance of Freedom\u003cbr\u003e2 Labor and the Ten-Hour System\u003cbr\u003e3 Walt Whitman: Higher Progress at Mid-century\u003cbr\u003e4 The Eight-Hour Day: Labor from the Civil War to the 1920s\u003cbr\u003e5 Infrastructures of Freedom\u003cbr\u003e6 Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Dream\u003cbr\u003e7 Challenges to Full-Time, Full Employment\u003cbr\u003e8 Labor Turns from Shorter Hours to Full-Time, Full Employment\u003cbr\u003e9 Higher Progress Fades, Holdouts Persist\u003cbr\u003e10 The Eclipse of Higher Progress and the Emergence of Overwork\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52584900657432,"sku":"9781439907146","price":56.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/free-time-the-forgotten-american-dream-hardback-9781439907146","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}