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Smile or die

Paperback • 2010 • English • 1. edition

Smile or die: how positive thinking fooled America and the world

By Barbara Ehrenreich

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

This book explores the tyranny of positive thinking, and offers a history of how it came to be the dominant mode in the USA. Ehrenreich conceived of the book when she became ill with breast cancer, and found herself surrounded by pink ribbons and platitudes. She balked at the way her anger about having the disease was seen as unhealthy and dangerous by health professionals and other sufferers. In her droll and incisive analysis of the cult of cheerfulness, Ehrenreich ranges across contemporary r...Show more

Popular culture
Psychology

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ISBN

9781847081735

Publisher

Granta

Published year

2010

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Smile or die

Format

Paperback

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