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Bright-sided

how the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America

by Barbara Ehrenreich

2009 235 pages eng ★ 3.9 (7 ratings)

In this utterly original take on the American frame of mind, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the strange career of our sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude. Evangelical mega-churches preach …

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