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    <body><![CDATA[Three and a half stars. I love Barbara Ehrenreich--her incisive writing style, her ability to focus on data instead of wishes or predictions, and the fact that she is emphatically not a people person. I thought she represented the positive-thinking movement unfairly, though. <br/><br/>First, she d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79198527">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Boy is it nice to see someone exposing Positive fucking Psychology, <em>The Secret</em>, the &quot;prosperity gospel,&quot; and all the rest of the American happytalk crap.  I get so sick of it.  I get so fucking sick of it.  God, I got so sick of it at the American Cancer Society--all the smileys and balloo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76322281">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Even more interesting than I thought it would be. Discusses the problems with the loss of healthy realism in our society; for example, the truly harmful results wrought by corporate captains of the mortgage industry, by their insistence on rose-colored only scenarios from their risk managers; warner...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75594140">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here Ehrenreich offers a fascinating debunking of the cults of happiness, positive thinking, and optimism which have such a strange grip on American culture. From cancer therapy, church life, consumerism, to Wall St. and more, she shows how the dogma of American optimism has long worked as a form of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77568865">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This isn't a &quot;great&quot; book on the level of Nickle and Dimed, but it's good.  The first part of the book, where Ehrenreich talks from personal experience about the forced optimism surrounding breast cancer, is really poignant and interesting.  That chapter could probably stand alone as an es...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75140861">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Barbara Ehrenreich's always thoughtful and some of her earlier work, including Nickled and Dimed, links in to the subject of this book: a thorough critique of 'positive thinking.' She traces its evolution in the 19th century and its path from fringe thinking to mainstream, as well as its various pre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75662704">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[No critic completely dismissed Ehrenreich's critique of America's &quot;happiness&quot; culture. But reviewers' enthusiasm for her critique seemed to depend on their assessment of the book's moral urgency. Several critics felt that the message of <em>Bright-Sided</em> was essential to readers in the aftermat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79691817">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In her latest book, Ehrenreich, undoubtedly one of America's most astute observers of US culture, politics, and civilization, confronts the sickingly unrealistic positive thinking movement. She reminds us that there's no scientific proof that pretending things are fine actually helps improve an into...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79128859">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A huge disappointment, especially because I usually like her stuff. When she focuses on business culture and economics, her writing shines! But bring it home to something personal, like illness? Good grief, it's awful.<br/><br/>I forced - I mean, really FORCED - myself to finish the first chapter,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75168438">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd never read Barbara Ehrenreich -&quot;Nickle and Dimed&quot; and &quot;Bait and Switch&quot; cover subjects I felt I already knew viscerally.  Having survived the corporate definition of accountability (always placed at the feet of those least in control) and the promotion of managers who were fu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75051979">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, a book club I belong to read The Secret.  While many in the group felt the words to be powerful and inspirational, I had a nagging feeling that I could not quite shake.  There was something creepy about the over-emphasis on positive thinking to &quot;attract&quot; possessions,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74466372">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had mixed reactions to this book.  I dislike when others say 'just think positive' when facing actual problems that need attention so I thought I'd enjoy Ehrenreich's book more than I did.  Her thesis attributes current positive philosophies to a reaction to Calvinist dogma which promotes self cri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77854649">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not what I was expecting.  You'd think with a sunny yellow cover and a title like &quot;Bright-Sided&quot; that this would be a cheery self-help book.  Not so much.  Proof positive that subtitles are important and worth skimming over.<br/><br/>Ehrenreich herself was charming and quite upbeat in a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75111887">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Barbara Ehrenreich opened my eyes to the dibilitating effects of positive thinking.  I had not realized that statistically the attitude and optimism of a person had little or no effect on outcomes.  I was aware of all the religious sham artists who continually bilk millions and millions of dollars o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81173987">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ehrenreich sees three problems with &quot;Positive Thinking&quot;: that it isolates us from real dangers of which we must be aware; that it implies that one's failures are wholly self-inflicted; and that its promotion is a combination of hucksterism and fascism, reinforcing the first two.<br/><br/>E...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76981830">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A hard look at the culture of 'positive thinking.'  For the cynic in me it plays right into that cynical view of positive thinking, but it really goes beyond the surface to look at how forced positiveness has invaded our lives in &quot;life coaches&quot; in positive religion (Joel Osteen) and our sl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80437198">more...</a>]]></body>
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