Vanity
Fair
"The
winningly smart and ever so charming Richard Stengel's brief history
of flattery, You're Too Kind, is not only a primer on how to
ingratiate but also a history of sucking up, from chimps de-fleaing
one another to the Mr. Rogers of manipulation, Mr. Dale Carnegie."
"Hot
Type," by Elissa Schappell. June 2000
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