God's Salesman - Norman Vincent Peale and the Power of Positive Thinking George Carol V.R. Research Professor of History Hobart and William Smith CollegesPaperback

Specifikacia God's Salesman - Norman Vincent Peale and the Power of Positive Thinking George Carol V.R. Research Professor of History Hobart and William Smith CollegesPaperback

When Donald Trump was married to his first wife Ivana Ivana Zeln�ckov� in 1977, the family minister who officiated the wedding was the preacher and author of The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale. Perhaps more than any other figure in American public life in the last decade, Donald Trump has been able to reimagine Peale's message of positive thinking to his political advantage. I never think of the negative, he said after the opening of Trump Tower in 1983. Both Trump and Peale have appealed to people who, like themselves, have felt marginalized by an intellectual and cultural elite. Peale's 1952 book, which helped to drive the religious revival of the 1950s, remains a perennial bestseller, and has affected the lives of a vast public in the United States and around the world.In God's Salesman, Carol V. R. George used interviews with