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Barbara Ehrenreich - Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World - 9781847081735 - KSK0000761
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Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World

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Description for Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World paperback. Explores the tyranny of positive thinking, and offers a history of how it came to be the dominant mode in the USA. This book argues passionately that the insistence on being cheerful actually leads to a lonely focus inwards, a blaming of oneself for any misfortunes, and thus to political apathy. It reveals the dark side of the nation. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 180. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
In this highly original and hugely entertaining account, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the cult of positive thinking in America. She examines the impact of positive thinking on religion, medicine, academia and the business community, and exposes the psychological effects of a world which tells us to 'put on a happy face'. From the pink ribbons and platitudes that surround breast cancer sufferers to the blind optimism that led to the recent economic disaster, Ehrenreich pokes holes in conventional wisdom and faux science, and ends with a rallying cry for clarity and courage.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Granta Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847081735
SKU
KSK0000761
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Barbara Ehrenreich
BARBARA EHRENREICH is the author of fourteen books, including the bestselling Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch. She lives in Virginia, USA.

Reviews for Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World
An invigoratingly aggressive and lucidly intelligent attack on the multi-tentacled nonsense monster ... for all the pleasure to be taken in its acidic wit, Smile or Die is deadly serious at its core ... Fine, funny and angry
Daily Mail, Book of the Week
Vindicated at last! All of us misanthropic misery guts, whingers and whiners, Seroxat-refuseniks, "walking ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World


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