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

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2006
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Illustrations --   |t Prologue: Lives of Quiet Desperation --   |t 1. Going Bust in the Age of Go-Ahead --   |t 2. A Reason in the Man --   |t 3. We Are All Speculators --   |t 4. Central Intelligence Agency, since 1841 --   |t 5. The Big Red Book of Third-Rate Men --   |t 6. Misinformation and Its Discontents --   |t 7. The War for Ambition --   |t 8. Big Business and Little Men --   |t Epilogue: Attention Must Be Paid --   |t Notes Acknowledgments Index --   |t Notes --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Index 
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