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.

Genres: Self Help

96 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2000

Reviews

[Mills · Rating 2 out of 5]

I imagined Yes You Can was going to be a really entertaining look at some of the advertisements of yesteryear, and easy to dip into on my breaks at work. Well... it was easy enough to dip into.

Humour, of course, is subjective but I would say only 10% ish of the ads were amusing enough to get me to crack a smile. The only one I laughed at at all was entitled "How to Raise Children at Home in Your Spare Time". If Yes You Can doesn't appeal to your funny bone, it's hard to say what appeal it could have at all. I can't see that it could be well rated for the information it imparts as the adverts contained within are entirely without captions and so seem chosen essentially at random. Very few detail dates, places or the like. What other purpose could there be?

All told, not a bad book, but not a terribly good one either.