Promise Land by Jessica Lamb-Shapiro

A Journey through America’s Self-Help Culture

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 3, 2014

Jessica Lamb-Shapiro talks about growing up immersed in the culture of self-help as the daughter of a widowed child psychologist and parenting author. In Promise Land: My Journey through America’s Self-Help Culture she looks at the many self-help options out there and whether they can deliver what they promise.

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