Self-Help - Softcover

Smiles, Samuel Jr.; Samuel Smiles, Smiles; Samuel Smiles

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1406500453 ISBN 13: 9781406500455

Publisher: Dodo Press, 2005

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Large Format for easy reading. A Victorian Classic. Focuses on the need for individual self improvement in society, drawing inspiration from some of the great entrepreneurs of the era.

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Review:

Much in Self-Help is still stimulating. Its central precept - the value of hard work, ingenuity, perseverance, thrift, a solid education - is in tune with American notions of workfare, not to mention the Labour party's espousal ... of a shift in the mission statement of the British social security system from 'hand-out' to 'hand-up'. Welfare financed by taxation is no longer chic. -- The Financial Times, 29.06.96

So far from a shallow exposition of 'economic man', Self-Help is an uplifting study of individual morality brought to life by personal examples. -- Lord Harris, The Times, 29.06.96

About the Author:

For the much of his career, Smiles advocated individual self improvement. Smiles' self-help books have been cited as influential on the New Thought Movement in late 19th century America and England, and, in particular, on the career of the New Thought author Orison Swett Marden, who said that his early ambition had been to become "the Samuel Smiles of America." This classic book has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism".

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