Self-Help Nation
Subtitle: The Long Overdue, Entirely Justified, Delightfully Hostile Guide to the Snake-Oil Peddlers Who Are Sapping Our Nation's Soul
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: March 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780871137777
Subjects: Sociology; Self-help techniques; Social Science; Miscellanea; Popular Culture; Popular Culture - General; General; Self-improvement
First sentence: Among other endeavors, none of which I can recommend, I have in my several lives been the proprietor of a bookstore, where little of very much interest takes place, save the irregular observation of disparate men and women, also a few children, engaged in the exaggerated belief that, as it's been said, there is power and profit in losing oneself in other people's minds.