Download or read book One Nation Under Stress written by Dana Becker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stress has long been considered the price Americans must pay for their way of life. Analyzing and interpreting both popular and academic accounts of stress in cultural terms, this book follows the development of the stress concept into an important vehicle for defining, expressing and containing middle-class anxieties.