TY  - GEN
N2  - This is a pioneering work of American cultural history, which connects everyday attitudes and anxieties about failure to lofty ideals of individualism and salesmanship of self. Sandage's storytelling will resonate with all of us as it brings to life forgotten men and women who wrestled with The Loser--the label and the experience--in the days when American capitalism was building a nation of winners.
DO  - 10.4159/9780674043053
DO  - doi
AB  - This is a pioneering work of American cultural history, which connects everyday attitudes and anxieties about failure to lofty ideals of individualism and salesmanship of self. Sandage's storytelling will resonate with all of us as it brings to life forgotten men and women who wrestled with The Loser--the label and the experience--in the days when American capitalism was building a nation of winners.
T1  - Born Losers :A History of Failure in America /
AU  - Sandage, Scott A., 
JF  - HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
JF  - Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
CN  - HN90.M6 ǂb S25 2005eb
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
ID  - 1478696
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Failure (Psychology)
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Losers
KW  - Social status
KW  - Social values
KW  - Stigma (Social psychology).
KW  - HISTORY / United States / General
SN  - 9780674043053
TI  - Born Losers :A History of Failure in America /
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ER  -