An curved arrow pointing right. Norman Vincent Peale, minister of the Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan and author of best-seller "The Power of Positive Thinking" had a significant influence ...

Ava Johnson, 9, wrote a book about the power of positive thinking based on her own life.

By the 1950s, Norman Vincent Peale was the big name in the field. His book, The Power of Positive Thinking, outsold every non-fiction book in the mid-1950s except the Bible. The language of ...