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Bright-sided
- How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America
Engelsk Paperback
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Bright-sided
- How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America
Engelsk Paperback

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Barbara Ehrenreich''s New York Times bestselling Bright-sided is a sharp-witted knockdown of America''s love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism

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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9780312658854
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0312658850
Udg. Dato:
3 aug 2010
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
208mm
Højde:
140mm
Forlag:
Picador
Oplagsdato:
3 aug 2010
Forfatter(e):
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