Books

November, 1978

For a while there, self-help books resembled combat manuals. If not exactly sheer ruthlessness, at least enhanced self-interest was the operating principle of the rash of books that tried to teach us how to manipulate our way to the top of the heap. Upward Nobility: How of Win the Rat Race Without Becoming a Rat (Times Books), by Addison Steele, is a fine counterpoint to the savage career advice of Michael Korda and Robert Ringer. The pseudonymous Steele talks about her friends in the publishing...