...author provides detailed examples and description of metaphors to show how cultural changes have influenced and continue to influence the self-help generation. McGee conveys to the reader that self-invention can be traced back to Benjamin Franklin's model of the self-made gentleman-citizen model and has evolved into a billion-dollar industry. McGee cites Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey (1998), Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown (1982), and The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (1963) to support her views of the self-help literature. McGee offers insight into how...

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