Good for Nothing
James Morone: America’s ‘base cupidity’, 19 May 2005
Born Losers: A History of Failure in America
by Scott Sandage.
Harvard, 362 pp., £22.95, February 2005,9780674015104 Show More
by Scott Sandage.
Harvard, 362 pp., £22.95, February 2005,
“... the cold corollary: if you failed, you’re a loser and have only your inadequate self to blame. Scott Sandage has written a splendid book about this American madness. He takes his chorus from Emerson: ‘There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune.’ Talented workers grow rich. Sandage contends ... ”
