Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781439907153)

Has the "American Dream" become an unrealistic utopian fantasy, or have we simply forgotten what we are working for? In his topical book, Free Time, Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt examines the way that progress, once defined as more of the good things in life as well as more free time to enjoy them, has come to be understood only as economic growth and more work, forevermore.

Hunnicutt provides an incisive intellectual, cultural, and political history of the original "American Dream" from the colonial days to the present. Taking his cue from Walt Whitman's "higher progress," he follows the traces of that dream, cataloging the myriad voices that prepared for and lived in an opening "realm of freedom."

Free Time reminds Americans of the forgotten, best part of the "American Dream"-that more and more of our lives might be lived freely, with an enriching family life, with more time to enjoy nature, friendship, and the adventures of the mind and of the spirit.

Author: Benjamin Hunnicutt
ISBN-10: 1439907153
ISBN-13: 9781439907153
Publisher: Temple University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/11/2013
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/19/2012 pg. 45
Library Journal 06/01/2013 pg. 125
Choice 07/01/2013