03510nam 2200805Ia 450 991082102630332120240416150546.00-674-26702-80-674-04305-710.4159/9780674043053(CKB)1000000000786881(OCoLC)646811701(CaPaEBR)ebrary10314284(SSID)ssj0000113985(PQKBManifestationID)11139447(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113985(PQKBWorkID)10101820(PQKB)10559331(MiAaPQ)EBC3300274(DE-B1597)457755(OCoLC)1013946058(OCoLC)1032692440(OCoLC)1049691824(OCoLC)1054866630(OCoLC)979683504(DE-B1597)9780674043053(Au-PeEL)EBL3300274(CaPaEBR)ebr10314284(OCoLC)923110289(EXLCZ)99100000000078688120040707d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBorn losers a history of failure in America /Scott A. Sandage1st ed.Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press20051 online resource (375 p.) "Born losers began as as a 1995 doctoral dissertation at Rutgers University".0-674-01510-X 0-674-02107-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 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 -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- IndexThis 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.History of failure in AmericaSocial valuesUnited StatesHistory19th centuryLosersUnited StatesHistory19th centuryFailure (Psychology)United StatesHistory19th centuryCapitalismSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryIdentity (Psychology)United StatesHistory19th centuryStigma (Social psychology)Social statusUnited StatesHistory19th centurySocial valuesHistoryLosersHistoryFailure (Psychology)HistoryCapitalismSocial aspectsHistoryIdentity (Psychology)HistoryStigma (Social psychology)Social statusHistory973Sandage Scott A1677756MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821026303321Born losers4044882UNINA