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Bright-sided: how positive thinking is undermining America

By Barbara , Ehrenreich

Book information

Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Year
2010
ISBN
9780805087499, 9780814405826, 9781429942539, 9780312658854, 0312658850, 0805087494
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
259 kB (265297 bytes)
Series
A Metropolitan book
Edition
First Picador edition
Pages
235 Seiten ; 21 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Happiness / United States;Kritik;Optimism / United

Description

A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism, existential clarity and courage. "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, worse of all, to the business community, where the refusal to consider negative outcomes -- like mortgage defaults -- contributed directly to the current economic disaster." The author sees personal self-blame and national denial as the "downside of positive thinking.".

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