robert surer, deepak chopra. steven covey, oprah winfrey. countless others, those are the all-star team. they have fanned out into our daily lives preparing messages of -- presenting messages of personal improvement, human relations, therapeutic adjustment as techniques for getting ahead and prospering and achieving self-fulfillment in our modern life. but carnegie's basic nation embodied in "how to win friends and influence people," that the individual who learns, carnegie's words, the fine art of getting along with people in everyday business and social contact, will enjoy more profit, more leisure, and what is more important, more happiness in business and in home life. this book, i think, became the text of this modern success creed. i think dale carnegie is the godfather of self-help in modern american life. carnegie went on to a rich and full life after the publication of this book in the 1930s. he flourished as a beloved teacher who in the carnegie course, through the '40s and '405s, still spend the great majority of his time with the