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Category : Microforms
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Historical Documentary Editions
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Category : Microforms
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Category : Microforms
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Historical Documentary Editions 1993
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Category : Microforms
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Category : Microforms
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Historical Documentary Editions 2000
Author: United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Documentary Editing
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Category : Criticism, Textual
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Category : Criticism, Textual
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Born Losers
Author: Scott A. Sandage
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674015104
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.
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.
America, History and Life
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 942
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 942
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A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century by S. Austin Allibone
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Languages : en
Pages : 1196
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Pages : 1196
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A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors
Author: S. Austin Allibone
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Languages : en
Pages : 1210
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Languages : en
Pages : 1210
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Congressional Anecdotes
Author: Paul F. Boller, Jr.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 9780195077063
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Here professional historian Paul Boller again shows his gift for lively and revealing stories. From great oratory to low malapropisms (like the Senator who spoke about "Indigo China"), from high wit (the first congressmen dryly called the pompous and weighty John Adams, "Your Rotundity") to segregation in the congressional dining room, this informative and entertaining look at the history of Congress reveals much about our nation and government.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 9780195077063
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Here professional historian Paul Boller again shows his gift for lively and revealing stories. From great oratory to low malapropisms (like the Senator who spoke about "Indigo China"), from high wit (the first congressmen dryly called the pompous and weighty John Adams, "Your Rotundity") to segregation in the congressional dining room, this informative and entertaining look at the history of Congress reveals much about our nation and government.