In this book Jastrow bewails the betrayal of the intelligence of the American public by supersalesmanship; by exploitation by fads, fakes, and cults; by 'adviseering' and racketeering by fake psychologists; and, worst of all, by Dale Carnegie. This book is not a scientific study and presentation of these problems, but rather is a counter-propaganda book, replete with indignation, sarcasm, slogans, and catch phrases, seasoned with a note of disappointment and frustration. 'Why are some of the best sellers written by some of the worst thinkers?' (p. 13). 'It has shaken my faith in the