John de Graaf is an author,award-winning documentary filmmaker and president of Take Back Your Time, an organization fighting overwork and time poverty in America.Since 1977, he has produced more than 40 documentaries, and dozens of shorter news stories and films. He has written dozens of articles for such publications as The Progressive, The Nation, The New York Times and many others.  He is the author or co-author of four books, including Affluenza, which is an international best-seller, Running Out of Time(1994) and Hot Potatoes (2002).