Captivate by Vanessa Van Edwards EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Vanessa Van Edwards
- ISBN: 0399564489
- Language: English
- Genre: Conversation Etiquette Guides, Popular Social Psychology & Interactions, Communication & Social Skills,
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Size: 18.1 MB
- Page: 320
- Price: Free
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How to win the social game
Once upon a time, a boy named Harry was teased for wearing thick
glasses and having a bookish streak. When the time came to apply to
college, he took jobs as a timekeeper in a railroad construction company
and as a shelf duster in a pharmacy to support his family. No one would
have guessed that this shy boy would one day become the thirty-third
president of the United States.
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The story of Harry S. Truman is surprising because he doesn’t fit the
stereotypical booming presidential personality. On July 19, 1944, this posed
a problem. Truman was facing the biggest opportunity of his career. He was
vying for the vice presidential nomination at the Democratic National
Convention. The odds were not in his favor. Then-president Franklin D.
Roosevelt had already publicly supported his contender, Henry Wallace, a
gifted public speaker and the current vice president.
Truman was not a gifted public speaker—and he knew it. His team had
to draw the battle off the main stage to make the convention work to
Truman’s strength: one-on-one rapport building. All day, they pulled
delegates into a private, air-conditioned room underneath the platform,
called Room H. The convention hall was stiflingly hot, so delegates literally
breathed a breath of fresh air as they listened to Truman’s pitch and began
to cool off. Then he spent hours standing at the end of the hallway,
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