Volume 54, Number 15 · October 11, 2007
They'd Much Rather Be Rich
By Andrew Hacker
The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain Since 1950
by Avner Offer
Oxford University Press, 454 pp., $45.00
Century of Difference: How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years
by Claude S. Fischer and Michael Hout
Russell Sage Foundation, 411 pp., $45.00
In Pursuit of Knowledge: Scholars, Status, and Academic Culture
by Deborah L. Rhode
Stanford University Press, 236 pp., $24.95
The Williams Directory, 2006–2007
Williams College, Office of Public Affairs, 77 pp.
Standard and Poor's 500 CEO Profiles
'I've been rich, and I've been poor,' the cabaret entertainer Sophie Tucker was once heard to say, famously adding, 'and believe me, rich is better.' Avner Offer disagrees. In his view, the spread of affluence not only corrupts character, but has caused all these disorders and discontents:
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