The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia by Michael Booth

The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

Michael Booth

480 pages first pub 2014 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history sociology travel informative slow-paced

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Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years and has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely book, he leaves his adopte...

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