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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Born losers
    sub title: a history of failure in America
  name:
    name part: Sandage, Scott A.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 362 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: What makes somebody a Loser, a person doomed to unfulfilled dreams and humiliation? Nobody is born to lose, and yet failure embodies our worst fears. The Loser's history over the past two hundred years reveals the dark side of success, how economic striving reshaped the self and soul of America. From colonial days to the Columbine tragedy, cultural historian Sandage explores how failure evolved from a business loss into a personality deficit, from a career setback to a gauge of our self-worth. From private diaries, family letters, business records and even early credit reports, Sandage reconstructs the dramas of real-life Willy Lomans. He unearths their confessions and denials, foolish hopes and lost faith, sticking places and changing times. Dreamers, suckers and nobodies come to life, showing how the national quest for success remade the individual ordeal of failure.
  table of 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.
  note: Scott A. Sandage.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Social values
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Losers
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Failure (Psychology)
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Capitalism
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Identity (Psychology)
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Stigma (Social psychology)
  subject:
    topic: Social status
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  classification: HN90.M6 S25 2005
  classification: 303.3/72/097309034
  identifier: 067401510X (alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780674015104 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 2004051134
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 040707
    record change date: 20151110102209.0
    record identifier: in00002487054