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Yes You Can: Timeless Advice from Self-help Experts

Yes You Can: Timeless Advice from Self-help Experts

by JenniferMcKnight-Trontz (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

    $7.46
Synopsis

Be thinner, smarter, and sexier now with this irresistible collection of ready-to-use tips and tricks from the optimistic golden age of self-improvement, when a better you was never more than three steps, fifteen minutes, or a lie-down on the Magic Couch away. Yes You Can is a jaw-dropping, life-changing gallery of material from books, records, advertising, and gadget packaging from the 1920s-1970s before the modern complex and endless recovery when you could still Solve Your Sex Problems with Self-Hypnosis or Raise Children in Your Spare Time. Author Jennifer McKnight-Trontz assembles over 200 color and black-and-white illustrations and real charts, tips, and advice. Mind-expanding and waist-reducing, Yes You Can is here to help.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 108
 Edition: Cloth First Published 1989 ed.
 Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 13 Apr 2000
ISBN 10: 0811827135
ISBN 13: 9780811827133

Media Reviews
USWEEKLY Leigh Russell Win friends and influence people with this cunningly designed collection of twentieth-century self-improvement guides. If you've ever wanted your therapist to just tell you what to do already or felt that 12 steps are a few too many, you'll appreciate Jennifer McKnight-Trontz's yearning for an earlier era of positive thinking, quick fixes and glossy advice pamphlets. As this impressive, funny collection of self-help literature illustrates, personality was considered as malleable as postwar plastic in self-improvement's heyday (circa 1920 to 1970), and many believed that a bright smile, an optimistic outlook or a vibrating machine could solve just about anything. The dates quality of these slickly packaged guidesfeaturing cheerful, cleanshaven men and efficient, bright-eyed womenwill undoubtedly amuse: ads for Toosh, the padded panty; books with such ominous titles as Mastery of People; entire treatises on how to help your husband relax and what to do when a fellow gets fresh. (Simply say Not now, Ambroselet's go get a hamburger. ) Still, you might be surprised at how many of these tips seem sensible and wise even today.
Author Bio
Jennifer McKnight-Trontz is a writer and designer living in south Florida whose books include Hang in There!, How to Be Popular, Yes You Can, and The Good Citizen's Handbook.