The American Idea of Success
Author : Richard M. Huber
Publisher :
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Author : Richard M. Huber
Publisher :
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Author : Richard M Huber
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 1987-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 091636643X
Examines the philosophical basis of the drive for success prevalent throughout American history
Author : Lawrence R. Samuel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : 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.
Author : Jennifer L. Hochschild
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 39,52 MB
Release : 2004-10-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 0199839689
The American Dream and the Public Schools examines issues that have excited and divided Americans for years, including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual education, and ability grouping. While these are all separate problems, much of the contention over them comes down to the same thing--an apparent conflict between policies designed to promote each student's ability to succeed and those designed to insure the good of all students or the nation as a whole. The authors show how policies to promote individual success too often benefit only those already privileged by race or class, and often conflict with policies that are intended to benefit everyone. They propose a framework that builds on our nation's rapidly changing population in order to help Americans get past acrimonious debates about schooling. Their goal is to make public education work better so that all children can succeed.
Author : Ellen D. Wu
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 24,37 MB
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0691168024
The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant communities into the national fold, charging that the failure of America to live in accordance with its democratic ideals endangered the country's aspirations to world leadership. Weaving together myriad perspectives, Wu provides an unprecedented view of racial reform and the contradictions of national belonging in the civil rights era. She highlights the contests for power and authority within Japanese and Chinese America alongside the designs of those external to these populations, including government officials, social scientists, journalists, and others. And she demonstrates that the invention of the model minority took place in multiple arenas, such as battles over zoot suiters leaving wartime internment camps, the juvenile delinquency panic of the 1950s, Hawaii statehood, and the African American freedom movement. Together, these illuminate the impact of foreign relations on the domestic racial order and how the nation accepted Asians as legitimate citizens while continuing to perceive them as indelible outsiders. By charting the emergence of the model minority stereotype, The Color of Success reveals that this far-reaching, politically charged process continues to have profound implications for how Americans understand race, opportunity, and nationhood.
Author : Sarah Churchwell
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1541673425
A Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of 2018 The unknown history of two ideas crucial to the struggle over what America stands for In Behold, America, Sarah Churchwell offers a surprising account of twentieth-century Americans' fierce battle for the nation's soul. It follows the stories of two phrases--the "American dream" and "America First"--that once embodied opposing visions for America. Starting as a Republican motto before becoming a hugely influential isolationist slogan during World War I, America First was always closely linked with authoritarianism and white supremacy. The American dream, meanwhile, initially represented a broad vision of democratic and economic equality. Churchwell traces these notions through the 1920s boom, the Depression, and the rise of fascism at home and abroad, laying bare the persistent appeal of demagoguery in America and showing us how it was resisted. At a time when many ask what America's future holds, Behold, America is a revelatory, unvarnished portrait of where we have been.
Author : Robert Vare
Publisher : Broadway Books
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0767926846
Rarely has a collection of influential essays, stories, and poems so vividly captured America. Readers can see the nation through the eyes of its finest writers in this remarkable anthology.--"Chicago Tribune."
Author : Lawrence Chenoweth
Publisher : Brooks/Cole
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Steven F. Messner
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,28 MB
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781111346966
Authored by Steven Messner and Richard Rosenfeld, both highly respected scholars and researchers, CRIME AND THE AMERICAN DREAM, 5th Edition is the seminal work in a major segment of criminological theory. The foundation of the book is institutional anomie theory (an offshoot of Mertonian anomie theory), which the authors posit helps to explain why America's over-emphasis on the pursuit of materialistic gain contributes to the country's high rate of violent crime. Featuring a very clear and accessible writing style, this is a theory book that students will actually understand. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Author : Alan Elliott
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 17,58 MB
Release : 1998-02-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1418571474
From stories about Irving Berlin to Oprah Winfrey, this collection contains 366 inspirational five-minute readings - one for each day of the year. Included are motivational stories of successful people such as Steven Spielberg, Bill Gates, Thomas Edison, and Wilma Rudolph.