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Born Losers : A History of Failure in America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (375 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674043053
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Born LosersDDC classification:
  • 303.3/72/097309034
LOC classification:
  • HN90
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of 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.
Summary: This pioneering American cultural history connects everyday attitudes and anxieties about failure to lofty ideals of individualism and salesmanship of self. Sandage's storytelling brings to life forgotten individuals 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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Intro -- Contents -- List of 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.

This pioneering American cultural history connects everyday attitudes and anxieties about failure to lofty ideals of individualism and salesmanship of self. Sandage's storytelling brings to life forgotten individuals 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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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