Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
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- Oct 13, 2009
- #Mentalhealth #PoliticalEconomy
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, we are told, is th...
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Number of Pages: 206
ISBN: 0805087494
ISBN-13: 9780805087499
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Zeynep Tufekci @zeynep
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Sep 2, 2022
Many will know of Ehrenreich's very succesful book, "Nickel and Dimed", but I was also very fond "Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermined America, her excellent book excoriating the shallow "just think-positive!" industrial-complex. Her voice will be missed.