Self-Help Messiah: Dale Carnegie and Success in Modern America
✍ Scribed by Watts, Steven
- Book ID
- 107908190
- Publisher
- Other Press
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 5 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781590515037
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✦ Synopsis
An illuminating biography of the man who taught Americans "how to win friends and influence people"
Before Stephen Covey, Oprah Winfrey, and Malcolm Gladwell there was Dale Carnegie. His book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, became a best seller worldwide, and Life magazine named him one of "the most important Americans of the twentieth century." This is the first full-scale biography of this influential figure.
Dale Carnegie was born in rural Missouri, his father a poor farmer, his mother a successful preacher. To make ends meet he tried his hand at various sales jobs, and his failure to convince his customers to buy what he had to offer eventually became the fuel behind his future glory. Carnegie quickly figured out that something was amiss in American education and in the ways businesspeople related to each other. What he discovered was as simple as it was profound: Understanding people's needs and desires is paramount in any...