The Successful American
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Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : United States |
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Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Richard Weiss |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Success |
ISBN | : 9780252060434 |
From the introduction: "Tradition has it that every American child receives, as part of his birthright, the freedom to mold his own life. . . . However inaccurate as a description of American society, the success myth reflects what millions believe that society is or ought to be. The degree to which opportunity has or has not been available in our society is a subject for empirical investigation. It rests within the realm of verifiable fact. The belief that opportunity exists for all is a subject for intellectual analysis and rests within the realm of ideology. This latter dimension of the success myth is the primary focus of this book."
Author | : Richard M. Huber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Author | : George Gallup |
Publisher | : Irwin Professional Publishing |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
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The great American success story offers you the opportunity to sit down with some of the most accomplished people in America and learn from the best of the best what it takes to be a success. /
Author | : Thomas E. Anastasi |
Publisher | : Glenbridge Publishing Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 094443567X |
Author | : Irving Kristol |
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Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Anonymous |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
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Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781022345638 |
Author | : Peter Demerath |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2009-12-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226142426 |
Middle- and upper-middle-class students continue to outpace those from less privileged backgrounds. Most attempts to redress this inequality focus on the issue of access to financial resources, but as Producing Success makes clear, the problem goes beyond mere economics. In this eye-opening study, Peter Demerath examines a typical suburban American high school to explain how some students get ahead. Demerath undertook four years of research at a Midwestern high school to examine the mercilessly competitive culture that drives students to advance. Producing Success reveals the many ways the community’s ideology of achievement plays out: students hone their work ethics and employ various strategies to succeed, from negotiating with teachers to cheating; parents relentlessly push their children while manipulating school policies to help them get ahead; and administrators aid high performers in myriad ways, even naming over forty students “valedictorians.” Yet, as Demerath shows, this unswerving commitment to individual advancement takes its toll, leading to student stress and fatigue, incivility and vandalism, and the alienation of the less successful. Insightful and candid, Producing Success is an often troubling account of the educationally and morally questionable results of the American culture of success.
Author | : Thomas Paine |
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Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1918 |
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Author | : Lawrence R. Samuel |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2020-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1527554171 |
This history of success in the United States illustrates the degree to which personal and professional accomplishments have determined overall life satisfaction. Beyond serving as a guide to the past, present, and future of success in America, especially that found in the business world, this book poses a provocative argument: the standard practice of employing outer-directed measures of success, notably wealth, power, and fame, has worked to the psychological disadvantage of many Americans. More specifically, it shows that a comparative and competitive view of success has made a significant number of individuals feel less successful than if more inner-directed measures were used. Ironically then, the traditional model of success in the United States has been largely a failure. This work offers historians, practitioners, and general readers of non-fiction a blueprint for how to adopt a more meaningful and positive model of success in their everyday lives.