Appeared in Free Inquiry, vol 30 issue 2

Positivity Ain’t All It’s Pumped Up to Be

Matt Marshall

REVIEW Positivity Ain’t All It’s Pumped Up to Be Matt Marshall Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, by Barbara Ehrenreich (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8050-8749-9) 256 pp. Cloth $23.00. Barbara Ehrenreich dedicates her latest book, Bright-sided, “To complainers everywhere,” entreating them to “Turn...