One book he recently reviewed was “Bright-Sided: How the relentless promotion of positive thinking has underminded America,” by Barbara Ehrenreich.  I had heard something about this recently on the radio and I think junkdrawer67’s review is spot on.  Ehrenreich makes the assertion that in the past several years America has developed a trend of often self-delusional thoughts of optimism.    I’m not going to rehash what junkdrawer67 has already pointed out.

I know what you are thinking, there is nothing wrong with a little positive thinking, but lets not bullshit ourselves people!  (we have the government for that).  Take a minute to give it a read. ~cg