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Source: WAMU "The Diane Rehm Show"
Roundup

Darrin McMahon: "Happiness: A History" [51min]

In modern society, happiness is everywhere. It's promised by prescription drugs, used to sell just about anything and everything, and leads many on a fruitless quest. Diane Rehm looks at the history of happiness with Florida State University professor Darrin McMahon, author of Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity.
Read entire article at WAMU "The Diane Rehm Show"