How to Win Friends and Influence People
U Nu authored several books some of which have been translated into English. Among his works are "The People Win Through" (1951), "Burma under the Japanese" (1954), "An Asian Speaks" (1955), and "Burma Looks Ahead" (1951). His autobiography (1907–1962) "Ta-Tei Sanei Tha" ("Naughty Saturday-born") was published in India by Irrawaddy Publishing (U Maw Thiri) in 1975. An earlier version had been published in 1974; it was translated into English by U Law Yone, Editor of the (Rangoon) "Nation" till 1963 and who, like U Nu, was jailed by the Revolutionary Council in the 1960s. Before U Nu became Prime Minister, he had translated, in the late 1930s, Dale Carnegie's book, "How to Win Friends and Influence People" ("Lupaw Luzaw Louknee" in Burmese – in retranslation, it roughly meant 'How to Take Advantage of Man by Man'); later the translated name was changed to the more palatable 'Meikta Bala Htika' which can be retranslated as "A Treatise on Friendly Social Contract". The translated work under the second title became a prescribed text in schools in the 1950s as was U Nu's original work in Burmese, "The People Win Through" or "The Sound of the People Victorious" ("Ludu Aungthan").