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Something for Nothing: Luck in America by Jackson Lears

by Vince Carducci

[26.Jun.03] :. With a legacy son in the White House and the rewards of hard work a crapshoot (thanks to corporate grifters like Enron), these days more attention is turning to the place of luck in American culture.

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