Author: Steve Zakszewski
Publisher: American Loser
ISBN: 0985641401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
American Loser
Author: Steve Zakszewski
Publisher: American Loser
ISBN: 0985641401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher: American Loser
ISBN: 0985641401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Born Losers
Author: Scott A. Sandage
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674015104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
What makes somebody a Loser, a person doomed to unfulfilled dreams and humiliation? Nobody is born to lose, and yet failure embodies our worst fears. The Loser is our national bogeyman, and his history over the past two hundred years reveals the dark side of success, how economic striving reshaped the self and soul of America. From colonial days to the Columbine tragedy, Scott Sandage explores how failure evolved from a business loss into a personality deficit, from a career setback to a gauge of our self-worth. From hundreds of private diaries, family letters, business records, and even early credit reports, Sandage reconstructs the dramas of real-life Willy Lomans. He unearths their confessions and denials, foolish hopes and lost faith, sticking places and changing times. Dreamers, suckers, and nobodies come to life in the major scenes of American history, like the Civil War and the approach of big business, showing how the national quest for success remade the individual ordeal of failure. Born Losers 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.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674015104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
What makes somebody a Loser, a person doomed to unfulfilled dreams and humiliation? Nobody is born to lose, and yet failure embodies our worst fears. The Loser is our national bogeyman, and his history over the past two hundred years reveals the dark side of success, how economic striving reshaped the self and soul of America. From colonial days to the Columbine tragedy, Scott Sandage explores how failure evolved from a business loss into a personality deficit, from a career setback to a gauge of our self-worth. From hundreds of private diaries, family letters, business records, and even early credit reports, Sandage reconstructs the dramas of real-life Willy Lomans. He unearths their confessions and denials, foolish hopes and lost faith, sticking places and changing times. Dreamers, suckers, and nobodies come to life in the major scenes of American history, like the Civil War and the approach of big business, showing how the national quest for success remade the individual ordeal of failure. Born Losers 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.
Beautiful Losers
Author: Samuel Francis
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826260551
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The 1992 presidential election campaign showed just how deep were the divisions within the Republican party. In Beautiful Losers, Samuel Francis argues that the victory of the Democratic party marks not only the end of the Reagan-Bush era, but the failure of the American conservatism.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826260551
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The 1992 presidential election campaign showed just how deep were the divisions within the Republican party. In Beautiful Losers, Samuel Francis argues that the victory of the Democratic party marks not only the end of the Reagan-Bush era, but the failure of the American conservatism.
The American Decisions
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
The American Decisions
Author: John Proffatt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
The American Mystery
Author: Tony Tanner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521783743
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A collection of essays by the late Tony Tanner on a wide range of key American authors.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521783743
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A collection of essays by the late Tony Tanner on a wide range of key American authors.
The American and English Annotated Cases
Author: Harry Noyes Greene
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
Book Description
Queer Troublemakers
Author: Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350079367
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Irreverent and provoking, the figure of the 'queer troublemaker' is a disruptive force both poetically and politically. Tracing the genealogy of this figure in modern avant-garde American poetry, Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain develops innovative close readings of the works of Gertrude Stein, Frank O'Hara, Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson. Exploring how these writers play with identity, gender, sexuality and genre, Bussey-Chamberlain constructs a queer poetics of flippancy that can subvert ideas of success and failure, affect and affectation, performance and performativity, poetry and being.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350079367
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Irreverent and provoking, the figure of the 'queer troublemaker' is a disruptive force both poetically and politically. Tracing the genealogy of this figure in modern avant-garde American poetry, Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain develops innovative close readings of the works of Gertrude Stein, Frank O'Hara, Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson. Exploring how these writers play with identity, gender, sexuality and genre, Bussey-Chamberlain constructs a queer poetics of flippancy that can subvert ideas of success and failure, affect and affectation, performance and performativity, poetry and being.
Trainwreck
Author: Jeff Nichols
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 143911286X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Hilarious and oddly inspiring, Trainwreck is proof that a life disastrously lived can still turn out beyond anybody's wildest imaginings. Growing up a privileged Manhattan kid, Jeff Nichols should have had it all. Instead, he got a plethora of impairments: learning disabilities, a speech impediment, dyslexia, ADD, and a mild case of Tourette's syndrome. In Trainwreck, his weird and witty memoir of utter dysfunction, Nichols gives an irreverent look at how one "idoit" made good.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 143911286X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Hilarious and oddly inspiring, Trainwreck is proof that a life disastrously lived can still turn out beyond anybody's wildest imaginings. Growing up a privileged Manhattan kid, Jeff Nichols should have had it all. Instead, he got a plethora of impairments: learning disabilities, a speech impediment, dyslexia, ADD, and a mild case of Tourette's syndrome. In Trainwreck, his weird and witty memoir of utter dysfunction, Nichols gives an irreverent look at how one "idoit" made good.
Family Constellations in Contemporary Ibero-American and Slavic Literatures
Author: Anna Artwińska, Ángela Calderón, Jobst Welge
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111209474
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111209474
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description