Bright-sided
How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

Publisher:  Metropolitan Books
Year Published:  2009
Pages:  256pp   ISBN:  0805087494
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX14727

Ehrenreich traces the strange career of Americans' sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude.

Subject Headings

• New Age
• Pseudoscience
• Psychology
• Psychology/New Thought