Something for Nothing: Luck in America
by:
Jackson Lears (author)
Jackson Lears has won accolades for his skill in identifying the rich and unexpected layers of meaning beneath the familiar and mundane in our lives. Now, he challenges the conventional wisdom that the Protestant ethic of perseverance, industry, and disciplined achievement is what made America...
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Jackson Lears has won accolades for his skill in identifying the rich and unexpected layers of meaning beneath the familiar and mundane in our lives. Now, he challenges the conventional wisdom that the Protestant ethic of perseverance, industry, and disciplined achievement is what made America great. Turning to the deep, seldom acknowledged reverence for luck that runs through our entire history from colonial times to the early twenty-first century, Lears traces how luck, chance, and gambling have shaped and, at times, defined our national character.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142003879 (0142003875)
Publish date: July 27th 2004
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 408
Edition language: English
competent and straightforward humanities work, as Professor Lears draws upon literature and culture studies to discuss chance/hazard/luck in American life/identity. not quite as dynamic, strong, or spell-binding as the best humanities writing out there, but at least competent and intelligent, and dr...
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