Author: Thomas Hart BENTON (United States Senator.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: Emily Zackin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226832376
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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"This book is about why debt relief was a salient political issue for so long and why it then ceased to be one. It is also about the United States' constitutional tradition, and the contradictions it embodies. Tracing the geographic, sectoral, and racial politics of debt relief over time--and examining the roles that social movements, interest groups, and constitutional interpretation played--Emily Zackin and Chloe N. Thurston show how the politics of debt relief has interacted with race and other social hierarchies that have conditioned both state action and debtors' opportunities to mobilize. Although the twentieth and early twenty-first century saw the erosion of debt protection, history reminds us that Americans once mounted large-scale grassroots campaigns for debt relief. These activists made radical claims about economic justice, and they reshaped constitutional law and the American state"--

Author: Scott A. Sandage
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674267028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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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.

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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Author: John Adams
Publisher: Avero Publications
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1096

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Author: British Library
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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