The Most Famous Self-Help Author in America

Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People” was both acclaimed and mocked

Ryan Fan
Frame of Reference
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6 min readOct 13, 2020

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Dale Carnegie — From Hunter at Flickr

Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sinclair Lewis, once insulted the most famous self-help book in America, How to Win Friends and Influence People. Lewis said the book taught people to “smile and bob and pretend to be interested in other people’s…

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Ryan Fan
Frame of Reference

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