The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950
"A fascinating, ambitious, wide-ranging, freewheeling books about the perils of affluence.... Offer's intellectual ambition is admirable, and he offers a coherent interpretation of a massive number of social and economic facts, trends, changes, and differences."--Bruce G. Carruthers,AmericanJournal of Sociology