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Peak Notions Book Club

The Let Them Theory: Self-help as a gauge of what we are feeling inadequate about, whether a universalised theory is any help to anyone, and what 'low culture' reveals about our values
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The Let Them Theory sold 2.7 million copies within ten weeks of its publication in December 2024. Like all self-help books, it is a descendent of the first of the genre -Samuel Smiles’ 1859 title, Self-Help, which was a guide to self advancement and improvement for the ambitious and newly socially mobile Victorian middle classes. The book tapped into so…

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