How to Talk Dirty and Influence People political conventions he perceived as having hypocritical tendencies, and widened the boundaries of free speech. The title is a parody of the 1936 bestseller "How to Win Friends and Influence People", by Dale Carnegie. How to Talk Dirty and Influence People How to Talk Dirty and Influence People is an autobiography by Lenny Bruce, an American satirist and comedian, who died in 1966 at age 40 of a drug overdose. At the request of Hugh Hefner and with the aid of Paul Krassner, Bruce wrote the work in serialized format for "Playboy" in 1964 and 1965. Shortly thereafter it was
How to Make Trouble and Influence People on "Culture Jamming: How to Make Trouble and Influence People", broadcast in 1998 and also featured in "Head Space" No 4, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's monthly Arts and Culture Magazine. A collected and expanded version of all three of the original publications, "How to Make Trouble and Influence People: Pranks, Hoaxes, Graffiti and Mischief-making from Across Australia" () was collated by Iain McIntyre and Breakdown Press for release in October 2009. The 276-page book includes expanded historical listings, over 300 photographs and 14 interviews with Australian trouble makers. How to Make Trouble and Influence People How to Make Trouble and