Born Losers : A History of Failure in America / Scott A. Sandage.
2009
HN90.M6 ǂb S25 2005eb
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Title
Born Losers : A History of Failure in America / Scott A. Sandage.
Author
Sandage, Scott A., author.
ISBN
9780674043053
Published
Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2006
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (384 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674043053 doi
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HN90.M6 ǂb S25 2005eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
973
Summary
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.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Prologue: Lives of Quiet Desperation
1. Going Bust in the Age of Go-Ahead
2. A Reason in the Man
3. We Are All Speculators
4. Central Intelligence Agency, since 1841
5. The Big Red Book of Third-Rate Men
6. Misinformation and Its Discontents
7. The War for Ambition
8. Big Business and Little Men
Epilogue: Attention Must Be Paid
Notes Acknowledgments Index
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Contents
Illustrations
Prologue: Lives of Quiet Desperation
1. Going Bust in the Age of Go-Ahead
2. A Reason in the Man
3. We Are All Speculators
4. Central Intelligence Agency, since 1841
5. The Big Red Book of Third-Rate Men
6. Misinformation and Its Discontents
7. The War for Ambition
8. Big Business and Little Men
Epilogue: Attention Must Be Paid
Notes Acknowledgments Index
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index