Born Losers

Author : Scott A. Sandage
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674015104
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born Losers written by Scott A. Sandage and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Scott A. Sandage
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674043057
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born Losers written by Scott A. Sandage and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John Di Lemme
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105450538
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Champions are Born, Losers are Made written by John Di Lemme and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone was born a Champion, but the labels that society places on individuals make them question their status as a Champion that has a right to achieve massive success. In this book, John Di Lemme digs into the fact that Champions are Born, Losers are Made plus adds a Bonus Section on the Inner Secrets of Leadership.

Author : Oliver Phommavanh
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742538568
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Born Loser written by Oliver Phommavanh and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm Raymond, and my school is a joke. It's full of bullies and troublemakers. My solution? Be a nobody and fade into the background. But our new principal has blown my cover because he's chosen me as a prefect! It was looking pretty bad, until I made a crazy promise to get new air con for the classrooms. Now I'm REALLY in trouble!

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Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weekly World News written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in the creative success of over 30 years of supermarket tabloid publishing, the Weekly World News has been the world's only reliable news source since 1979. The online hub www.weeklyworldnews.com is a leading entertainment news site.

Author : John Barnes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101567031
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Losers in Space written by John Barnes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the year 2129 . . . and fame is all that matters Susan and her friends are celebutantes. Their lives are powered by media awareness, fed by engineered meals, and underscored by cynicism. Everyone has a rating; the more viewers who ID you, the better. So Susan and her almost-boyfriend Derlock cook up a surefire plan: the nine of them will visit a Mars-bound spaceship and stow away. Their survival will be a media sensation, boosting their ratings across the globe. There's only one problem: Derlock is a sociopath. Breakneck narrative, pointed cultural commentary, warm heart, accurate science, a kickass heroine, and a ticking clock . . . who could ask for more?

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501175467
Total Pages : 1184 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It written by Stephen King and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a selection from Sleeping beauties by Stephen and Owen King after page 1157 (to be published in Sept. 2017).

Author : Robert T. Lewis
Publisher : Wellness Institute, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781587410116
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Chances written by Robert T. Lewis and published by Wellness Institute, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lewis Timberlake
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780842303385
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born to Win written by Lewis Timberlake and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 1997-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges readers to count the cost, take the necessary steps, and begin climbing toward the top of self-esteem and peace with God and others.

Author : Wibke Brueggemann
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374313989
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Is for Losers written by Wibke Brueggemann and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a laugh-out-loud exploration of sexuality, family, female friendship, grief, and community. With the heart and hilarity of Netflix's critically-acclaimed Sex Education, Wibke Brueggemann's sex positive debut Love Is for Losers is required reading for Generation Z teens. Did you know you can marry yourself? How strange / brilliant is that? Fifteen-year-old Phoebe thinks falling in love is vile and degrading, and vows never to do it. Then, due to circumstances not entirely in her control, she finds herself volunteering at a local thrift shop. There she meets Emma . . . who might unwittingly upend her whole theory on life.