Born losers : a history of failure in America / Scott A. Sandage.
Publication details: Cambridge, Ma : Harvard University Press, c2005.Description: x, 362 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:- 067401510X (alk. paper)
- History of failure in America
- Social values -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Losers -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Failure (Psychology) -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Capitalism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Identity (Psychology) -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Stigma (Social psychology)
- Social status -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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- HN90.M6 S25 2005
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"Born losers began as as a 1995 doctoral dissertation at Rutgers University"--P. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: Lives of quiet desperation -- Going bust in the age of go-ahead -- A reason in the man -- We are all speculators -- Central Intelligence Agency, since 1841 -- The big red book of third-rate men -- Misinformation and its discontents -- The war for ambition -- Big business and little men -- Epilogue: Attention must be paid.