Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological
adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have
been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in
the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and
grandparenthood, and old age. Here, for the first time, a journalist
gains access to the archive of one of the most comprehensive
longitudinal studies in history. Its contents, as much literature as
science, offer profound insight into the human condition—and into the
brilliant, complex mind of the study’s longtime director, George
Vaillant.'
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