An Exhaustive History Of Being So Very Tired

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Do you have days when you come dragging home from work, feeling totally wiped out? Of course you do. But you know what? People in every century, every age have complained about feeling exhausted. What’s changed over time are the explanations.

Cultural historian Anna Katharina Schaffner lays them out in her new history of exhaustion, "Exhaustion: A History."