Live like Dale Carnegie, neg like Calvin Coolidge.

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Sources:

• Self-help Messiah: Dale Carnegie and Success in Modern America
• The Positive Thinkers
• Age of industrial violence 1910-1915 : the activities and findings of the United States commission on industrial relations
• Representation and Rebellion: The Rockefeller Plan at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1914–1942
• Dale Carnegie and the Problem of Sincerity
  New York Times review from 1937

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Peter and Michael discuss a book that's light on facts and long on sentences.

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• Peter's other podcast, 5-4
• Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase

Sources:

• Book Review: ‘Summer of Our Discontent,’ by Thomas Chatterton Williams
• Police shootings database 2015-2024
• From the archive, 22 March 1991: President Bush sickened by Rodney King case
• Barack Obama Public Approval
• Letter To Christopher L. Eisgruber, President Princeton University
• Police give additional details in beating of machete-wielding man amid Dallas protest
• In City After City, Police Mishandled Black Lives Matter Protests
• RIOTS IN LOS ANGELES: Challenger; Nation Needs Healing, Clinton Says
• Median household income by race and ethnicity U.S. 1967-2023
• Majority of college students support Israel/Gaza campus protests, 1 in 10 actually participate in them
• Thomas Chatterton Williams on Race, Identity, and “Cancel Culture”

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How one comedian's offhand advice launched a decent TV episode, a mediocre book and a terrible movie.

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• Peter's other podcast, 5-4
• Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase

Sources:

• Susan Faludi's "Backlash"
• For Women Who Count on Men to Be Jerks
• Bridget Jones’s Legacy
• Single Women in Popular Culture
• A Decade of Advice for Women and Men in the Best-Selling Self-Help Literature
• The gendered nature of self-help
• Single Women in Popular Culture

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