Dale Carnegie, writer of the legendary How exactly to Win Close friends and Influence People, began his profession as the leading ‘life coach’ of the twentieth century by teaching the artwork of public speaking. Public speaking, as Carnegie saw it, is an essential skill that may be gained through fundamental and repeated measures. His classic volume on the subject made an appearance in 1926 and was modified twice-in shortened versions-in 1956 and 1962. This 2006 revision-edited with a longtime consultant to Dale Carnegie & Associates, about PRESENTING AND PUBLIC SPEAKING for Achievement Inc., as well as the editor in charge of updating How exactly to Win Friends and Impact People-is the definitive one for our period.

While up-to-date in its language and factors of reference, PRESENTING AND PUBLIC SPEAKING for Success preserves the full range of ideas and methods that appeared in the original: including Carnegie’s complete talk and diction exercises, which follow each chapter, as the writer originally designated them. This edition restores Carnegie’s original appendix of the three comprehensive self-help classics: Acres of Gemstones by Russell H. Conwell, As a Man Thinketh by James Allen, and A NOTE to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard. Carnegie included these essays in his primary edition because, although they do not directly relate to public speaking, he felt they would end up being of great worth to the readers. This is actually the definitive update of the best-loved public-speaking reserve of all time.