In From Dawn to Decadence, Jacques Barzun mentions in passing the book The Harried Leisure Class, published in 1970. One can probably find it in many college li

In From Dawn to Decadence, Jacques Barzun mentions in passing the book The Harried Leisure Class, published in 1970. One can probably find it in many college libraries. I remember it as an interesting and cogent book. I am probably the age of Ms. Buck's parents, and I don't immediately see a great difference between how we and our neighbors of the same age spend our leisure and how our children do. OK, we aren't running marathons or riding bicycles across Iowa. But most of the persons I know of that age are not working insane hours; and in my generation I knew the occasional 20-something putting in very long weeks at the law firm.