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Born losers : a history of failure in America
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Born losers : a history of failure in America / Scott A. Sandage.
ISBN
067401510X (alk. paper)
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
Physical Description
x, 362 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Notes
"Born losers began as as a 1995 doctoral dissertation at Rutgers University"--P. .
Variant and related titles
History of failure in America.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 02, 2005
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-341) and index.
Contents
Prologue: Lives of quiet desperation
Going bust in the age of go-ahead
A reason in the man
We are all speculators
Central Intelligence Agency, since 1841
The big red book of third-rate men
Misinformation and its discontents
The war for ambition
Big business and little men
Epilogue: Attention must be paid.
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