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Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America

Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral PsychologyGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 0312658850
ISBN13: 9780312658854
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Aug 3 2010
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The New York Times Bestseller

Deeply satisfying. . . I have waited my whole life for someone to write a book like Bright-sided. --The New York Times Book Review

From the critically-acclaimed author of Nickel and Dimed comes the bestseller Bright-sided, a sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism.

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 is the key to getting success and prosperity. Or so we are told.

In this utterly original debunking, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the false promises of positive thinking and shows its reach into every corner of American life, from Evangelical megachurches to the medical establishment, and, worst of all, to the business community, where the refusal to consider negative outcomes--like mortgage defaults--contributed directly to the current economic disaster. With the myth-busting powers for which she is acclaimed, Ehrenreich exposes the downside of positive thinking: personal self-blame and national denial. This is Ehrenreich at her provocative best--poking holes in conventional wisdom and faux science and ending with a call for existential clarity and courage.

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