New Books in Popular Culture

New Books in Popular Culture


Beth Blum on Self-Help, Dale Carnegie to Today (JP)

October 17, 2024

Beth Blum,Assistant Professor of English at Harvard,is the author ofThe Self-Help Compulsion(Columbia University Press 2019). In 2020, she spoke with John about how self-help went from its Victorian roots (worship greatness!) to the ingratiating unctu