Through the highs and lows of life, books have been my refuge, guide and faithful friends. Here are some titles to soothe ...

Jefferson especially recommended the fourth chapter, “On the Perturbations of the Mind,” which he deemed to have the “best definition of the pursuit of happiness.” Mr. Rosen divides his book into ...

His book’s overarching argument holds that, for the Founders—he concentrates on Jefferson, John Adams, Franklin and George Mason—the pursuit of happiness lay in the ancient creed of Stoicism.

For the Founding Fathers, the pursuit of happiness meant the pursuit of long-term virtue, National Constitution Center ...

Maybe that's why there's such a market for happiness: Amazon holds some 66,000 books on the sought-after subject. You don't have time to read all those. So we've summarized the best ones.

Gretchen Rubin, the bestselling author of multiple books on happiness and habit formation, including "Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives," says figuring out which type ...

Best-selling author Frank Cottrell-Boyce, the current children's laureate, is to spearhead a campaign to tackle a "recession ...

Each year, self-help books fly off the shelves as Americans clamor to crack the code on happiness once and for all. But new research suggests that we might be going about this whole “pursuit of ...

A conversation with Peter Gordon about the enduring influence of the Frankfurt School’s leader, the future of critical theory, and his recent book, A Precarious Happiness. Few 20th-century ...