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Something for Nothing: Luck in America Paperback - 2004
by Jackson Lears
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 traces how luck, chance, and gambling have shaped and, at times, defined our national character.
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The impulse to gamble is mysterious and powerful.
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- Title Something for Nothing: Luck in America
- Author Jackson Lears
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 2004-07-27
- ISBN 9780142003879 / 0142003875
- Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.48 x 5.58 x 0.93 in (21.54 x 14.17 x 2.36 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 363.42
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