The Return of the Space Cowboy

Dolly Rebecca Parton (b. 1946) is a pillar figure of the music industry with her career and her influence spanning nearly six decades and reaching across genres. Parton was born January 19, in a small town nestled in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, she began performing from a young age, her first performance at age ten began her ascent into superstardom (Watson 2012). She has earned her place as the most renowned female country artist of all time with twenty-five number-one singles on…

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…