99% perspiration a new working history of the American way of life
"An enlightening and entertaining interrogation of the myth of American self-reliance and the idea of hard work as destiny "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." This phrase, arguably Thomas Edison's most famous quote, has been drilled into the minds of generations...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[2025]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Columbia : the birth of the American order
- Exceptional and exceptionally vague : the dangers of a safe founding story
- Landfall : the religion of work
- Earn this : the impossible immigrant binary
- Fording the river : big business and the frontier mirage
- Right of way : the tall myth of the maverick
- Bustle : work theater and the death of leisure
- Hustle : the impossible act of keeping up
- Worth : the wages of going it alone
- Small normalcies : a new national story
- Automatic for the people : the postworker future
- Blindness: the crisis of American self-estrangement.
