The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan for Achieving Your Dreams
December 15, 2008
Napoleon Hill (18831970), one of the all-time best-selling motivational authors, began his career in "success philosophy" with this title, first published in 1928 as an eight- volume series and reprinted here as one large paperback, newly indexed. It reads as a fascinating amalgam of what has since become familiarinterviewing notables and learning their means of success, thus formulating key principles for others to useand what has not, e.g., Hill's assumption that self-help readers will take on hundreds of pages of text, complete with dollops of Shakespeare and Leigh Hunt, plus Hill's own allegories, none of it predigested or accompanied by worksheets. The book's original constructs, many with the biases of another era, are allowed to stand. There's no new intro explaining the dated mindset. Yet much may be as useful now as it was 80 years ago. For consideration by public libraries and for academic libraries supporting historical collections of such guides.
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