Lyzko
29 May 2024
Life / Is there a self-help movement in Poland? [13]
Norman Vincent Peale was the long time minister of the Marble Collegiate Church in
mid-town Manhattan! A lovely looking edifice as I remember.
Ayn Rand's character Howard Roark the architect in "The Fountainhead has been used to
heighten a Republican philosophy of total self reliance, even mocking the need for both G-d
and religion itself.
Hers was the forerunner of the EST movement during the late '70's "We are where we are by choice alone",
as you might recall.
Actually, the first self-help books in North America were both written by actor Douglas
Fairbanks around 1917, "Laugh & Live" as well "Making life Worthwhile", personifying
the American "Can do" spirit in more naive days. They pre-dated Dale Carnegie and Napoleon
Hill by at least ten to twenty years.
Norman Vincent Peale was the long time minister of the Marble Collegiate Church in
mid-town Manhattan! A lovely looking edifice as I remember.
Ayn Rand's character Howard Roark the architect in "The Fountainhead has been used to
heighten a Republican philosophy of total self reliance, even mocking the need for both G-d
and religion itself.
Hers was the forerunner of the EST movement during the late '70's "We are where we are by choice alone",
as you might recall.
Actually, the first self-help books in North America were both written by actor Douglas
Fairbanks around 1917, "Laugh & Live" as well "Making life Worthwhile", personifying
the American "Can do" spirit in more naive days. They pre-dated Dale Carnegie and Napoleon
Hill by at least ten to twenty years.