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...founded, concurred. But Handler, a 5-ft. 2-in. (1.6 m) dynamo, was convinced there was a market for a mass-produced adult doll. Little girls aspired to be bigger girls, she reasoned. For years she pressed on, finally introducing the doll at the 1959 Toy Fair in New York City...
Running, running, with BlackBerry, cell phone and laptop in hand, members of America's professional class are in a perpetual race with time. "There is a palpable sense out there that many of us have lost control of our lives," says the author, a prominent sociologist at New York University. Conley is a master chronicler of our attention-challenged age, tallying up the social and personal costs of always striving to be somewhere else. He is admirably frank about his own frenetic life: "It's all enough to drive one bonkers," he admits. "That rocking chair in my grandparents' house...
Since it was published in early 2008, the book has earned both critical and popular acclaim. It was billed as “extraordinary” and “profoundly moving” by The New York Times Book Review’s Geoffrey C. Ward. It also sold about 40,000 copies in its first five months in print, the highest circulation of any of Faust’s books to date...
...winner will be announced in March in New York City...