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Sham : How the Self-help Movement Made America Helpless by Salerno, Steve is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><P>Self-help: To millions of Americans it seems like a godsend. To many others it seems like a joke. But as investigative reporter Steve Salerno reveals in this groundbreaking book, it’s neither—in fact it’s much worse than a joke. Going deep inside the Self-Help and Actualization Movement (fittingly, the words form the acronym SHAM), Salerno offers the first serious exposé of this multibillion-dollar industry and the real damage it is doing—not just to its paying customers, but to all of American society. <P>Based on the author’s extensive reporting—and the inside look at the industry he got while working at a leading “lifestyle” publisher—<i>SHAM</i> shows how thinly credentialed “experts” now dispense advice on everything from mental health to relationships to diet to personal finance to business strategy. Americans spend upward of $8 billion every year on self-help programs and products. And those staggering financial costs are actually the least of our worries.<P><i>SHAM</i> demonstrates how the self-help movement’s core philosophies have infected virtually every aspect of American life—t
Who reads Sham : How the Self-help Movement Made America Helpless?
It is typically read by readers building habits, skills, productivity or wellbeing.
Common subject areas: self-improvement, productivity, wellness.
- Author
- Salerno, Steve
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers : Three Rivers Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400054107
- Category
- self-help
- Subjects
- Business, Psychology, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.47 / 5 (241 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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