Born Losers : : A History of Failure in America / / Scott A. Sandage.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Sandage, Scott A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674043053; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674043053
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Scott A. Sandage.

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.