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BookBrowse Reviews SHAM: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless. Non Fiction

SHAM
How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless
by Steve Salerno
Paperback, Sep 2006,
288 pages.
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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!...
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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!
This review is from the October 5, 2006 issue of BookBrowse Recommends. Click here to go to this issue.
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