One more slurp regarding the Chicken Soup expert's "facts" . . .
In his CNN Anderson Cooper 360 interview, Mark Hansen says that only Americans have self-help culture and that Andrew Carnegie started it all.
Wrong on both counts.
Ben Franklin's book The Way to Wealth (1758) predates Carnegies' The Gospel of Wealth (1900) and The Empire of Business (1902) by well over a hundred years.
And Scottish author Samuel Smiles' Self-Help (1859) was the first book ever with "self-help" in the title.
And Hansen has the gall to call Steve Salerno incompetent.
Make that wrong on three counts.
