text:  And he was, I think, the first self-help author in the US. He wrote his autobiography, never finished it, but I wrote a good chunk of it. And in it, he lays out basically how he succeeded in life. It's very practical, very American in that sense. And he's like, I started off poor as a candle maker's son, and here's what I did to succeed. And here's what you too, reader, can do. And now,