When I was in my 20s and barely employable, I bought dozens of Norman Vincent Peale tapes.
When I was in my 20s and barely employable, I bought dozens of Norman Vincent Peale audiotapes.
Like Jim Michaels, Peale was a small man with a rock-quarry voice and the moral authority of Moses.
Norman Vincent Peale ran Marble Collegiate Church from 1932 to 1984--from the Great Depression to the American renaissance of entrepreneurial capitalism.
Yes, even secular pursuits can be great and noble endeavors, preached Peale.
Another writer from the same era, Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) wrote a bestseller in 1952 called The Power of Positive Thinking.
These towering optimists of 20th century America lived fantastically long lives: Napoleon Hill (1883-1970), Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), John Wooden (1910-2010), Ronald Reagan (1911-2004).
His brand of therapy owes more to Norman Vincent Peale than to Sigmund Freud, but there is scientific support for the power of positive thinking.
In 1952 Peale wrote a best seller called The Power of Positive Thinking, which made the New York Times best-seller list for 187 weeks.
Wooden is a throwback to an earlier, Norman Vincent Peale-era America.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and hotelier Orison Swett Marden's Success magazine (founded in 1897) were mere warm-ups to Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) and Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking (1952).
The Indian gallery features a Rembrandt Peale portrait (c. 1813) of future U.S. President William Henry Harrison, who defeated Tecumseh at Thames, as well as a buckskin jacket worn by Hillis Hadjo, leader of the Red Sticks (Batons Rouge), who were defeated by another future U.S. president, Andrew Jackson, at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814.
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