TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sandage,Scott A.
TI  - Born Losers: A History of Failure in America / 
SN  - 9780674015104
AV  - HN90.M6 ǂb S25 2005eb 
U1  - 973 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Failure (Psychology)
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Losers
KW  - Social status
KW  - Social values
KW  - Stigma (Social psychology)
KW  - HISTORY / United States / General
KW  - sh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Prologue: Lives of Quiet Desperation --; 1. Going Bust in the Age of Go-Ahead --; 2. A Reason in the Man --; 3. We Are All Speculators --; 4. Central Intelligence Agency, since 1841 --; 5. The Big Red Book of Third-Rate Men --; 6. Misinformation and Its Discontents --; 7. The War for Ambition --; 8. Big Business and Little Men --; Epilogue: Attention Must Be Paid --; Notes Acknowledgments Index --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674043053
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674043053
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674043053/original
ER  -