Dale Carnegie Signed 1948 First Edition: "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living"

Dale Carnegie was one of The most prolific American self-help authors and lecturer of the 20th century sometimes referred to as the godfather of the self-help industry. Born into poverty on a farm in Missouri November 24, 1888. As a teen, though still having to get up at 4 a.m. every day to milk his parents' cows, he managed to obtain a college education. His first job after college was selling correspondence courses to ranchers, and later became a salesman for Armour & Company. He quit sales in 1911 in order to pursue a lifelong dream of becoming an actor in New York but soon after returned home unemployed and broke, having to live at the YMCA for shelter. There he got the idea to teach public speaking. Carnegie had tapped into the average American's desire to have more self-confidence, and by 1914, he was earning $500 (about $12000 today) every week. By 1916 he was able to rent Carnegie Hall itself for a lecture to a packed house. Carnegie's first collection of his writings was P