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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERUs citizens are a "positive" people -- cheerful, positive, and upbeat: That is our reputation as well as our self-image. But greater than a temperament, being positive is the key to getting success and success. Or so we are told.On this utterly original debunking, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the bogus guarantees of positive thinking and shows its reach into every corner of American life, from Evangelical megachurches to the medical establishment, and, worst of all, to the business enterprise community, where the refusal to consider negative outcomes--like mortgage loan defaults--contributed directly to the current economic disaster. While using myth-busting powers that she is acclaimed, Ehrenreich exposes the disadvantage of positive thinking: personal self-blame and nationwide denial. That is Ehrenreich at her provocative best--poking slots in conventional intelligence and faux technology and concluding with a demand existential quality and courage.
