Surge of Piety: Norman Vincent Peale and the Remaking of American Religious Life

by Christopher Lane

The dramatic untold story of how Norman Vincent Peale and a handful of conservative allies fueled the massive rise of religiosity in the United States during the 1950s

Near the height of Cold War hysteria, when the threat of all-out nuclear war felt real and perilous, American minister Norman Vincent Peale published The Power of Positive Thinking. Selling millions of copies worldwide, the book offered a gospel of self-assurance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030020373X
• ISBN13: 9780300203738
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"