What makes somebody a Loser, a person doomed to unfulfilled dreams and humiliation? Nobody is born to lose, and yet failure embodies our worst fears. The Loser is our national bogeyman, and his histor
本書敘述「失敗文化」如何塑造今天的美國社會。 「失敗者萬歲」是懷特。惠特曼在19世紀美國一段艱難時代的名言。失敗者正是塑造美國當代文化的一群人，美國的失敗美學，也在這樣的一段文化形塑的過程中完成。 失敗者是美國當代文學的核心，亞瑟．米勒(Arthur Miller)在1949年的悲劇《推銷員之死》(Death of a Salesman) 裡，主角威利．婁門（Willy Loman
The abridged edition of the enduring masterwork—a classic portrait of America's culture and people Originally penned in the mid-nineteenth century by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in A
