American Decades
Looking Out for Number One
Handbook
By: Robert J. Ringer
Date: 1977
Source: Ringer, Robert J. Looking Out for Number One. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Los Angeles Book Corporation, 1977, ix, x, 1–2, 2, 5–6, 7, 9–11, 79, 117, 205, 207–208, 209, 216–217.
About the Author: Robert J. Ringer was an executive in the record and film industries. In 1973, Ringer found himself deep in debt. He self-published two best-selling books, Winning Through Intimidation (1974) and Looking Out for Number One (1977). After publishing his third book, Restoring the American Dream (1980), Ringer started a newsletter and a book publishing company.
Introduction
When Robert Ringer could not find a publisher for his 1974 self-help book, Winning Through Intimidation, he self-published the work and it became a national bestseller. Winning Through Intimidation describes the...
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1970's Business and the Economy Primary Sources
- Important Events in Business and the Economy, 1970–1979
- "Franchising's Troubled Dream World"
- "World Trade in the 1970s"
- "More Companies Hire Workers They Once Spurned—The Elderly"
- "The Surge of Public Employee Unionism"
- "The Post Freeze-Economic Stabilization Program"
- "H. Ross Perot: America's First Welfare Billionaire"
- "The Doctrine of Multinational Sell"
- "When Cities Turn to Private Firms for Help"
- Looking Out for Number One
- A Time for Truth
- "Labor Law Reform and Its Enemies"
- "Low Pay, Bossy Bosses Kill Kids' Enthusiasm for Food-Service Jobs"
- An American Renaissance: A Strategy for the 1980s
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
