Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World by Barbara Ehrenreich

Jenni Murray salutes a long-overdue demolition of the suggestion that positive thinking is the answer to all our problems

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/10/smile-or-die-barbara-ehrenreich

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/09/barbara-ehrenreich-smile-lucy-ellmann

Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking.

Did Positive Thinking Wreck the Economy?