(Mobile book) Something for Nothing: Luck in America
♥ Jackson Lears ♥
| #556151 in Books | 2004-07-27 | 2004-07-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.40 x.84 x5.50l,.85 | File Name: 0142003875 | 416 pages
||4 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Something Special|By R. Walker|In "Something For Nothing" Jackson Lears has come up with nothing less than a fresh way to look at the American idea. He tells the story of two cultures: -- "the culture of control," and the "culture of chance" -- that have bubbled beneath the surface American life from the beginning (and he traces their roots deeper into history as well). He ret|From Publishers Weekly|Public moralists cannot abide the obsessive gambler. They bemoan the disintegration of a solid work ethic and condemn the search for the quick buck, the belief that it's possible to get something for nothing. But Lears, a historian at Rut
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 tra...
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