Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America - Brossura

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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ISBN 10: 0312658850 ISBN 13: 9780312658854

Casa editrice: Picador USA, 2010

Riassunto

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Americans are a "positive" people -- cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: This is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive is the key to getting success and prosperity. Or so we are told.

In this utterly original debunking, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the false promises of positive thinking and shows its reach into every corner of American life, from Evangelical megachurches to the medical establishment, and, worst of all, to the business community, where the refusal to consider negative outcomes--like mortgage defaults--contributed directly to the current economic disaster. With the myth-busting powers for which she is acclaimed, Ehrenreich exposes the downside of positive thinking: personal self-blame and national denial. This is Ehrenreich at her provocative best--poking holes in conventional wisdom and faux science and ending with a call for existential clarity and courage.

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L'autore:

Barbara Ehrenreich is the bestselling author of many books, including Nickel and Dimed, Bait and Switch, Bright-sided, This Land Is Their Land, Dancing In The Streets and Blood Rites. A frequent contributor to Harper's and The Nation, she has also been a columnist at The New York Times and Time magazine.

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Book by Ehrenreich Barbara

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• Editore: Picador USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0312658850
• ISBN 13: 9780312658854
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 235