A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism, existential clarity and courage. "Confronts the false promises of positive thinking and shows its reach into every corner of American life, from Evangelical megachurches to the medical establishment, and, worse of all, to the business community, where the refusal to consider negative outcomes -- like mortgage defaults -- contributed directly to the current economic disaster." The author sees personal self-blame and national denial as the "downside of positive thinking."
- ISBN10 0805087494
- ISBN13 9780805087499
- Publish Date 13 October 2009
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Metropolitan Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 235
- Language English