TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sandage,Scott A.
TI  - Born losers: a history of failure in America 
SN  - 067401510X (alk. paper)
AV  - HN90.M6 S25 2005
U1  - 303.3/72/097309034 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge, Ma
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Social values
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Losers
KW  - Failure (Psychology)
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Stigma (Social psychology)
KW  - Social status
N1  - "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
ER  -