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Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (Large Print)
Bright-Sided How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America - Large Print Author:Barbara Ehrenreich Americans are a positive people -- cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat. This is our reputation as well as our self-image. 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... more », almost mandatory, cultural attitude, and exposes the downside of irrational optimism.« less