Review
From the book jacket:
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.
Comment: SHAM has been rustling a
lot of feathers, as you'd expect of a book
that attacks the self-help industry!...
Beyond the Book
The USA
spends about $8 billion a year
on self-help programs and
products. To put this in
context, according to
Photius.com, out of 231
countries in the world, 85 of
them have GDPs of less than $8
billion. In other words, if
'Self-Help USA' was a country it
would rank 140th in the world!
Add in diet products and the
ranking would move up to the
mid-60s!
