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Born Losers
Author | : Scott A. Sandage |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2006-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674043053 |
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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.
Born Losers
Author | : Scott A. Sandage |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2006-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 067401510X |
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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.
Champions are Born Losers are Made
Author | : John Di Lemme |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 2012-01-23 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 9781105450532 |
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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.
Natural Born Loser
Author | : Oliver Phommavanh |
Publsiher | : Penguin Group Australia |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2018-07-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781742538563 |
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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!
Taking Chances
Author | : Robert T. Lewis |
Publsiher | : Wellness Institute, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1587410117 |
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Losers Loners and Rebels
Author | : Robert C. Dykstra,Allan Hugh Cole,Donald Capps |
Publsiher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780664229610 |
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Revealing that adolescent boys often identify themselves as losers, loners, and rebels, this book investigates the interior lives of boys as they develop their sense of self and begin the spiritual journey that will carry them throughout their lives. (Practical Life)
Beautiful Losers
Author | : Leonard Cohen |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2009-08-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780007341481 |
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One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, this uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle, and their sexual obsession and shared fascination with a mythic saint.
Love is for Losers
Author | : Wibke Brueggemann |
Publsiher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2021-01-21 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781529033731 |
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A laugh out loud look at first love, loss and trying to avoid the girl of your dreams. What a stupid expression that is in the first place: To fall in love. Like you fall into a ditch or something. Maybe people need to look where they’re going. As far as Phoebe Davis is concerned, love is to be avoided at all costs. Why would you spend your life worrying about something that turns you into a complete moron? If her best friend Polly is anything to go by, the first sniff of a relationship makes you forget about your friends (like, hello?), get completely obsessed with sex (yawn) and bang on constantly about a person who definitely isn't as great as you think they are. So Phoebe isn't going to fall in love, ever. But then she meets Emma . . . Love is for Losers by Wibke Brueggemann is a hilarious, life-affirming novel about all the big stuff: love, sex, death, family, heartbreak, kittens . . . and kisses that turn the whole world upside down.