Born losers : a history of failure in America / Scott A. Sandage.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2006.Edition: 1st Harvard University Press pbk. edDescription: 1 online resource (x, 362 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780674043053
- 0674043057
- Social values -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Losers -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Failure (Psychology) -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Capitalism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Identity (Psychology) -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Stigma (Social psychology)
- Social status -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Stereotyping
- Valeurs sociales -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Perdants -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Échec -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Identité (Psychologie) -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Stigmatisation (Psychologie sociale)
- Statut social -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
- Capitalism -- Social aspects
- Failure (Psychology)
- Identity (Psychology)
- Losers
- Social status
- Social values
- Stigma (Social psychology)
- United States
- 1800-1899
- 303.372097309034 22
- HN90.M6 S25 2006eb
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Originally published: 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-341) and index.
Print version record.
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.
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.
In English.
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