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By one reading, things look pretty good for Americans today: the country is richer than ever before and the unemployment rate is down by half since the Great Recession - lower today, in fact, than for most of the postwar era. But a closer look shows that something is going seriously wrong. This is the collapse of work - most especially among America's men. Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist who holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, shows that while "unemployment" has gone down, America's work rate is also lower today than a generation ago - and that the work rate for US men has been spiraling downward for half a century. Astonishingly, the work rate for American males aged twenty-five to fifty-four - or "men of prime working age" - was actually slightly lower in 2015 than it had been in 1940: before the War, and at the tail end of the Great Depression.