Born losers : a history of failure in America / Scott A. Sandage.
2005
HN90.M6 S25 2005 (Mapit)
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Title
Born losers : a history of failure in America / Scott A. Sandage.
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ISBN
067401510X (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
Language
English
Description
x, 362 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
HN90.M6 S25 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.3/72/097309034
Note
"Born losers began as as a 1995 doctoral dissertation at Rutgers University"--P.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-341) and index.
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Table of Contents
Prologue: Lives of quiet desperation
Going bust in the age of go-ahead
A reason in the man
We are all speculators
Central Intelligence Agency, since 1841
The big red book of third-rate men
Misinformation and its discontents
The war for ambition
Big business and little men
Epilogue: Attention must be paid.
Going bust in the age of go-ahead
A reason in the man
We are all speculators
Central Intelligence Agency, since 1841
The big red book of third-rate men
Misinformation and its discontents
The war for ambition
Big business and little men
Epilogue: Attention must be paid.