{"product_id":"redefining-success-in-america-michael-kaufman-9780226550152","title":"Redefining Success in America: A New Theory of Happiness and Human Development","description":"Work hard in school, graduate from a top college, establish a high-paying professional career, enjoy the long-lasting reward of happiness. This is the American Dream--and yet basic questions at the heart of this competitive journey remain unanswered. Does competitive success, even rarified entry into the Ivy League and the top one percent of earners in America, deliver on its promise? Does realizing the American Dream deliver a good life? In \u003ci\u003eRedefining Success in America, \u003c\/i\u003e psychologist and human development scholar Michael Kaufman develops a fundamentally new understanding of how elite undergraduate educations and careers play out in lives, and of what shapes happiness among the prizewinners in America. In so doing, he exposes the myth at the heart of the American Dream. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Returning to the legendary Harvard Student Study of undergraduates from the 1960s and interviewing participants almost fifty years later, Kaufman shows that formative experiences in family, school, and community largely shape a future adult's worldview and well-being by late adolescence, and that fundamental change in adulthood, when it occurs, is shaped by adult family experiences, not by ever-greater competitive success. Published research on general samples shows that these patterns, and the book's findings generally, are broadly applicable to demographically varied populations in the United States. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Leveraging biography-length clinical interviews and quantitative evidence unmatched even by earlier landmark studies of human development, \u003ci\u003eRedefining Success in America\u003c\/i\u003e redefines the conversation about the nature and origins of happiness, and about how adults develop. This longitudinal study pioneers a new paradigm in happiness research, developmental science, and personality psychology that will appeal to scholars and students in the social sciences, psychotherapy professionals, and serious readers navigating the competitive journey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Kaufman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022655015X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226550152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2019","brand":"Michael Kaufman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47520232636671,"sku":"9780226550152","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7c8a58b9-89d8-4c7b-a109-f32f0d9ab5e9.jpg?v=1762884348","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/redefining-success-in-america-michael-kaufman-9780226550152","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}