Something for Nothing

副标题: Luck in America

ISBN: 9780142003879

出版社: Penguin (Non-Classics)

出版年: 2004-7

页数: 392

定价: USD 16.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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.