UID:
edocfu_9959232434102883
Format:
1 online resource (375 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-674-26702-8
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0-674-04305-7
Content:
This 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.
Note:
"Born losers began as as a 1995 doctoral dissertation at Rutgers University".
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Prologue: Lives of Quiet Desperation --
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1. Going Bust in the Age of Go-Ahead --
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2. A Reason in the Man --
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3. We Are All Speculators --
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4. Central Intelligence Agency, since 1841 --
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5. The Big Red Book of Third-Rate Men --
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6. Misinformation and Its Discontents --
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7. The War for Ambition --
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8. Big Business and Little Men --
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Epilogue: Attention Must Be Paid --
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Notes Acknowledgments Index --
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Notes --
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Acknowledgments --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-674-01510-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-674-02107-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4159/9780674043053
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