38 Beth Blum on Self-Help from Carnegie to Today (JP)

Beth Blum, Assistant Professor of English at Harvard, is the author of The Self-Help Compulsion (Columbia University Press 2019). Learn how self-help went from its Victorian roots (worship greatness!) to the ingratiating unctuous style prescribed by the other-directed Dale Carnegie (everyone loves the sound of their own name) before arriving at the &#8220;neo-stoical&#8221; self-help gurus &#8230; <a href="https://recallthisbook.org/2020/07/06/38-beth-blum-on-self-help-from-carnegie-to-today-jp/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "38 Beth Blum on Self-Help from Carnegie to Today&#160;(JP)"</span></a>