TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sandage,Scott A.
TI  - Born losers: a history of failure in America 
SN  - 9780674043053
AV  - HN90.M6 S25 2006eb
U1  - 303.372097309034 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass., London
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Social values
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Losers
KW  - Failure (Psychology)
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Stigma (Social psychology)
KW  - Social status
KW  - Stereotyping
KW  - Valeurs sociales
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Perdants
KW  - Échec
KW  - Identité (Psychologie)
KW  - Stigmatisation (Psychologie sociale)
KW  - Statut social
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - 19th Century
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Originally published: 2005; Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-341) and index; 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
N2  - 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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