And the Pursuit of Happiness

Name: And the Pursuit of Happiness
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ISBN: 9780143122036

ISBN-10: 0143122037

ISBN-13: 9780143122036

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Authors: Maira Kalman

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Energized and inspired by the 2008 elections, on inauguration day Kalman traveled to Washington, D.C. and launched a year long investigation of American democracy and its workings. The result is And the Pursuit of Happiness.In tracing our historical roots in visits to the Lincoln archive and Jefferson’s Monticello and in taking the pulse of the present at a town hall meeting in Newfane, Vermont and the inner chambers of the Supreme Court, Kalman finds evidence of democracy at work all around us. The observations she makes as she travels charm and inform, and—as we have come to expect with Kalman—the route is always one of fascinating indirection. As we follow Kalman along her wholly…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.08" wide x 9.12" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English