Placeholder text

Go to cart

All the Gold Stars

By Rainesford Stauffer

Product Image: All the Gold Stars

All the Gold Stars

By Rainesford Stauffer

0 - Default Title
Description
From journalist and author of An Ordinary Age, an examination, dismantling, and reconstruction of ambition, where burnout is the symptom of our holiest sin: the lonely way we strive. Ambition—the want, the hunger, the need to achieve—is woven into America’s fabric from the first colonization to capitalism. From our first gold star assignment to acceptance at the “right” college to hustle and grinding our lives, we celebrate our drive, even as we gatekeep who is permitted to strive--and how visibly. Even as we burn out. When we can’t even. When we know: work won’t love us back. All the Gold Stars looks at how the cultural, personal, and societal expectations around ambition are driving the burnout epidemic by funneling our worth into productivity, limiting our imaginations, and pushing us further apart. Through the devastating personal narrative of her own ambition crisis, Stauffer discovers the common factors driving us all, peeling back layers of family expectations, capitalism, and self-esteem that dangerously tie up our worth in our output. Interviews with students, parents, workers, psychologists, labor organizers, and more offer a new definition of ambition and the tools to reframe our lives around true success. All the Gold Stars provides ways for us to reject our current reality and reconceive ambition as more collective, imaginative, and rooted in caring for ourselves and each other.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
2023-06-06
Publication Date:
2023-06-06
Publisher:
Grand Central Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0306830337
ISBN13:
9780306830334
Weight:
406 g
Height:
146 cm
Width:
219 cm
Thickness:
26 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out