What Makes For a Happy Life? Amid the constant chatter of today's world, with its 24-hour news cycles, Twitter and mobile communications, David Malouf returns to the ancient question of what makes us happy. With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. In considering the happy life - what it is, and what makes it possible - he returns to the 'highest wisdom' of the classics, looks at how, thanks to Thomas Jefferson's way with words, happines...