On Paradise Drive

How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense

By: David Brooks

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Paperback | 2 June 2005 | Edition Number 1

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Take a look at Americans in their natural habitat: guys shopping for barbecue grills, doing that special walk men do when in the presence of lumber; superefficient soccer Ubermoms who chair school auctions, organize PTAs, and weigh less than their kids; and suburban chain restaurants, which if they merged would be called Chili's Olive Garden Hard Rock Outback Cantina. Are we as shallow as we look? Many around the world see us as the great bimbos. Sure, Americans work hard and are energetic, but that is because we are money-hungry and don't know how to relax.
But if you probe deeper, you find that we behave the way we do because we live under the spell of paradise. We are the inheritors of a sense of limitless possibilities, raised to think in the future tense and to strive toward the happiness we naturally accept.
On Paradise Drive, at once serious and comic, describes this distinct American future-mindedness that shapes our personalities and underlies our beliefs.

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"Brooks makes meaning...out of a seemingly unrelated but vastly entertaining assemblage of images of American life."
-- The New York Times

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Introduction: The Great Dispersal
Out for a Drive
Thyroid Nation
Americans: Bimbos of the World
The Spiritual Wind
Growing
Learning
Shopping
Working
A History of Imagination
Bibliographical Essay
Acknowledgments
Index
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On Paradise Drive

How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense

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Industry Reviews

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