Yes You Can: Timeless Advice from Self-Help Experts

By Jennifer McKnight-Trontz

Be thinner, smarter, and sexier now with this irresistible collection of ready-to-use tips and tricks from the optimistic golden age of self-improvement, when a better you was never more than three steps, fifteen minutes, or a lie-down on the Magic Couch away. Yes You Can is a jaw-dropping, life-changing gallery of material from books, records, advertising, and gadget packaging from the 1920s-1970s--before the modern complex and endless recovery-- when you could still Solve Your Sex Problems with Self-Hypnosis or Raise Children in Your Spare Time . Author Jennifer McKnight-Trontz assembles over 200 color and black-and-white illustrations and real charts, tips, and advice. Mind-expanding and waist-reducing, Yes You Can is here to help.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811827135
• ISBN13: 9780811827133
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Amazing what people will do . . .

it was a nice book, with great examples of the lengths we'll go through to be better, and i liked the tips - but i wanted more. if she actually put in more excerpts than covers it would have been a five-star book. oh well, i just deducted one!

Bought several for my friends - Great Book!

This is a terrific compilation of text and illustrations chronicling America's unending quest for personal perfection. As I read through it, I was constantly getting "nostalgia hits," as well as fascinating information on this fascinating subject. Ms. Trontz has clearly devoted much work to this book and struck the perfect balance between pictures and text. The book has a lot of "show," but a lot of "go", as well. I couldn't put it down. The copy at the center of my coffee table is dogearred, now, and I've bought many for my friends. It makes a very reasonable, appreciated gift. Highly recommended.