Bright-Sided : how the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America
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Read by Kate Reading.
Americans are a "positive" people--cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image. 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, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the strange career of our sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude.
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PUBLISHED
North Kingstown, R.I. : Distributed by BBC Audiobooks America, p2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 6 sound discs (480 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780792766698 :
0792766695
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Reading, Kate.
Macmillan Audio.
BBC Audiobooks America.
SUBJECTS
Optimism -- United States.
Happiness -- United States.
Self-confidence.
Success in business -- United States.