PART VIII, Chapter 29 Summary and Analysis

Chapter Twenty-nine is the first chapter in the final part of the book, Part Eight: Go You and Profit by Their Example.

Collier introduces writer and publishing entrepreneur, Albert Lewis Pelton, and demonstrates how Pelton is able to start with virtually nothing and build a mail order book-selling business that makes him very wealthy using Collier's principles during the 1920s and 1930s.

Albert Lewis Pelton is a young man in Connecticut with a book and a dream. The book contains ideas that when used by ambitious men and women, will be their guide to success. His problem is that he has only two hundred dollars to his name and it must be spent very wisely in order to realize his dream of getting his book into the hands of many people. He researches carefully and finds a...