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99% perspiration : a new working history of the American way of life

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text 99% perspiration : a new working history of the American way of life

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"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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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x, 293 pages ; 25 cm
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Pantheon Books 2025

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