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...

Norman Vincent Peale, minister of the church: born Bowersville, Ohio 31 May 1898; married 1929 Ruth Stafford (one son, two daughters); died Pawling, New York 24 December 1993. NORMAN VINCENT PEALE was one of the most influential figures in modern American Protestantism: a...

Chosen by Brigitte Weeks, editor of Guideposts publishing and a former editor of Book World. "Think positive!" This phrase from The Power of Positive Thinking has become a part of the language. Norman Vincent Peale's bestseller has had an astonishing history and--like its...

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...