Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction) - Hardcover

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410424707 ISBN 13: 9781410424709

Verlag: Thorndike Pr, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Americans are a positive people -- cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat. This is our reputation as well as our self-image. In this utterly original take on the American frame of mind, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the strange career of our sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude, and exposes the downside of irrational optimism.

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The best-selling author of Bait and Switch exposes the downside of America's penchant for positive thinking, which she believes leads to self-blame and a preoccupation with stamping out "negative" thoughts on a personal level, and, on a national level, has brought on economic disaster. (Social science).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Thorndike Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1410424707
• ISBN 13: 9781410424709
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 367
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