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
The Hare and many friends version appearing in a collection of Aesop's Fables, Gay's original authorship has gradually become forgotten. The story appeared as the final poem in the book of fables written by John Gay at the royal suggestion for the instruction of Prince William, Duke of Cumberland. Soon after its publication in 1727, Gay's hopes of Court preferment were disappointed and the story was put about by his friends that the fable had a personal application. In particular, Jonathan Swift wrote how "Gay, the Hare with many friends, /Twice seven long years at court attends,” only to be let down. Though the fable's