Barbara Ehrenreich

Bright-Sided

How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America

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Produktbeschreibung

A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Picador
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 246g
• ISBN-13: 9780312658854
• ISBN-10: 0312658850
• Artikelnr.: 29921856

Autorenporträt

Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-2022) was a bestselling author and political activist, whose more than a dozen books included Nickel and Dimed, which the New York Times described as "a classic in social justice literature", Bait and Switch, Bright-sided, This Land Is Their Land, Dancing In The Streets, and Blood Rites. An award-winning journalist, she frequently contributed to Harper's, The Nation, The New York Times, and TIME magazine. Ehrenreich was born in Butte, Montana, when it was still a bustling mining town. She studied physics at Reed College, and earned a Ph.D. in cell biology from Rockefeller University. Rather than going into laboratory work, she got involved in activism, and soon devoted herself to writing her innovative journalism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
Smile or Die: The Bright Side of Cancer 15
The Years of Magical Thinking 45
The Dark Roots of American Optimism 74
Motivating Business and the Business of Motivation 97
God Wants You to Be Rich 123
Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness 147
How Positive Thinking Destroyed the Economy 177
Postscript on Post- Positive Thinking 195
Notes 207
Acknowledgments 223
Index 227