Author: George Packer (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2013) Reviewed by Theresa Forsman In the prologue to The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, author George Packer sets the scene: “No one can say when the unwinding began—when the coil that held Americans together in its secure and […]
Elizabeth Warren
Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry
Author: Helaine Olen (Portfolio/Penguin Group, 2012) Reviewed by Theresa Forsman In the late 1940s, the first years of the Baby Boom, the number of workers covered by a traditional, employer-managed pension was on the rise, reaching two-thirds of all employees by the mid-1980s. Today, as the first Baby Boomers have started to retire, fewer than […]
Thanks! How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier
Author: Robert Emmons (2007, Houghton Mifflin) Reviewed by Marc Bernstein I discovered Robert Emmons’ book, Thanks! How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier, at a difficult moment in my life. My wife had just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer; one doctor gave her six to nine months to live; another, six to […]
