Barbara Ehrenreich

A brilliant, savagely funny attack on the cult of positive thinking - Ehrenreich's most commercial book since Nickel and Dimed.

How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World

Smile Or Die

I get it Barbara, you hate positive people and smiling and North America. I did not get the point after reading half the book, it’s all criticism zero solutions

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.

Smile Or Die How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World

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