Born losers: a history of failure in america
Auteur :
Sandage, Scott A.
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674021075
Date de publication :
1 avr. 2006
Dimensions :
20,3 x 13,3 x 2,4 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.