Conflicts between mother and daughter in Two Kinds

Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…

However, in the fall of 2002, problems struck. Suddenly, in early September, computer users in China could not access Google.com. The Chinese government had blocked access to the site, and users were instead diverted to rival Chinese search sites.26 Two weeks later, it again became possible to access Google.com, but government censorship had been heightened, making the search engine far slower and less reliable.27 Much speculation exists as to why China suddenly chose to shut down and then to…