Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World - US title = Bright-Sided

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 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 'have a nice day' nation.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Ehrenreich
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2010
• EAN: 9781847081353
• ISBN: 978-1-84708-135-3
• No. of pages: 235
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 215 mm x 18 mm
• Series: E World
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Positives Denken, USA : Kultur