Makeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention

by Toby Miller

Life is very much a project in the United States--but not a straightforwardly individual one. A duality of individual free choice and disciplinary institutional governance is the grand national paradox. Simply being--leading life without a bumper sticker avowing one's elective institutional affinities--seems implausible in a country consumed by the makeover--the idea that what you were born as need not define you forever. As Toby Miller writes in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814251692
• ISBN13: 9780814251690
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"