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A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism. Americans are a "positive" ...
Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Book by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Barbara Ehrenreich's Bright-sided is a sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realismAmericans are a "positive" people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our... Google Books
Originally published: October 13, 2009
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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This is a forensic diagnosis of why boundless positive thinking turns our minds to mush, deracinates managers, and helps make us willing believers in economic ...
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But more than a temperament, being positive, we are told, is the key to success and prosperity. In this utterly original take on the American frame of mind, ...
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Jan 8, 2010 · Americans seem proud of being able to clap themselves into a frenzy of certainty for certainty's sake. "They had distributed motivational books ...
Oct 9, 2009 · Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America,” the new book by Barbara Ehrenreich, is based on her ...
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In this utterly original debunking, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the false promises of positive thinking and shows its reach into every corner of American life, ...
Whether we Americans see it as an embarrassment or a point of pride, being positive—in affect, in mood, in outlook—seems to be engrained in our national.
Oct 13, 2009 · In her new book, Bright-Sided, Ehrenreich explores the negative effects of positive thinking, and the "reckless optimism" that dominates ...
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Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America BY Barbara Ehrenreich. Metropolitan Books. Hardcover, 256 pages. $23.
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