Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) was a religious leader who developed a blend of psychotherapy and religion based on the idea that nearly all basic problems are personal. He spread this message through his radio and television programs and through his...

A long happy life, national acclaim, professional satisfactions, and accumulating wealth seemed to attest to the success of Norman Vincent Peale's blend of New Thought, psychotherapy, optimism, and Protestant Christianity. The phrase...

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (May 31, 1898 – December 24, 1993) was a Protestant preacher and author (most notably of The Power of Positive Thinking) and a progenitor of the theory of "positive...

In the back of her best seller, "The Secret," author Rhonda Byrne lists the biographies of 29 "teachers" whose wisdom inspired her book.Mixed among the color photos of such people as "Chicken Soup for the Soul" author Jack Canfield, there are black-and-white images of several...

As a young man, Jim Cheatham worked with three of the most prominent business leaders of the 20th century.He learned lessons from each of them about entrepreneurial success that still resonate today.In the mid-1960s, Cheatham moved to Memphis, Tenn., to join Holiday Inn. As the...

Inmates at the federal prison camp in Otisville, N.Y., were stunned by what they saw at the chapel library on Memorial Day _ hundreds of books had disappeared from the shelves.The removal of the books is occurring nationwide, part of a long-delayed, post-Sept. 11 federal...

AGAINST HAPPINESS: IN PRAISE OF MELANCHOLYBy Eric G. WilsonFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 151 pages, $20 If all productive misery reads like this, give me idle joy. Americans are plump and satisfied, complains Eric G. Wilson, and the tragedy is that their rose-colored glasses and SSRI’s...