Scott Sandage

Scott Sandage

Scott A. Sandage is a cultural historian at Carnegie Mellon University [1] . He is best known as the author of "Born Losers: A History of Failure in America".

[1] -- [http://www.history.cmu.edu/faculty/scott_sandage.html Sandage's Carnegie Mellon homepage]


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