Twentieth-Century American Success Rhetoric: How to Construct a Suitable Self

by John D. Ramage

Self-help authors like Tom Peters and Stephen Covey, who have dominated best-seller lists over the last two decades, have exercised increasing influence on political, governmental, and educational organizations. By contrast, the topic of American success books-- texts that promise to help readers succeed by retrofitting their identity to meet workplace demands--has been ignored by scholars since the 1980s. John Ramage challenges the neglect of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809326167
• ISBN13: 9780809326167
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"