I Dare You

St. Louis: Self-Published, 1950. 5th Edition or later. Hardcover. Collectible - VeryGood. 5"x7"x.5". 134 pages. 14th Edition. Ex-libris w/sticker to spine. Maroon cloth boards with embossed design. Yellow checkerboared pastedown w/bookplate. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and with slight tone. Dust stained edges. Danforth was Chairman of the Board, Ralston Purina Company, Checkerboard Square, St. Louis, MO. Foreword by G. M. Philpott. Secure ship w/tracking #. Book on encouragement for youth. Four-Fold Development: Think Tall, Stand Tall, Smile Tall, and Live Tall. Foreword by G. M. Philpott. Author's Preface. Table of Contents. Invitation to Join the Distinguished Company of Those Who Dare. I Dare You! is the expression of William H. Danforth's personal philosophy of "Four-square" personal development. Much more than a primer on the mechanics of balanced success, it is a riveting and motivational incitement to action. This brief book will provide you with the roadmap for success as well as a jolt of energy encouraging you to follow that path and fulfill your potential. William H. Danforth, who founded the Nestle Purina company & Washington University, saw life as a type of checkerboard. Danforth believed that four key components (or "squares") - the mental, the physical, the social, and the religious - needed to be in balance in order to achieve fulfillment and success in life. He encapsulated his ideas in I Dare You!, a book he published in 1931, in which he urges readers of any age to take chances and fulfill their full potential through his strategies of becoming a more risk-taking person.