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Ask HN: Where can I find the uncensored "How to Win Friends and Influence People"?
PG brings this book up in one of his essays, and notes that the edition available today is the Bowdlerized one. Where might I get a hold of the real thing?
- pg 18y agohttp://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=carnegie&bi=0&bx=off&ds=30&sortby=2&sts=t&tn=win+friends&x=97&y=17&yrh=1965 http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=carnegie...
- falsestprophet 18y agoWhy is the new edition inferior? edit: If you want to learn what people want, read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. [8] When a friend recommended this book, I couldn't believe he was serious. But he insisted it was good, so I read it, and he was right. It deals with the most difficult problem in human experience: how to see things from other people's point of view, instead of thinking only of yourself. [8] Buy an old copy from the 1940s or 50s instead of the current edition, which has been rewritten to suit present fashions. The original edition contained a few unPC ideas, but it's always better to read an original book, bearing in mind that it's a book from a past era, than to read a new version sanitized for your protection. http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html#f8n http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html#f8n
- pfedor 18y agoI got mine on ebay.