Osteen, John, 134, 136
Osteen, Victoria, 128–32, 182, 192
Outward Bound, 120–21
Pacific Institute, 99
PastorPreneur (Jackson), 142
pastorpreneurs, 137, 140–43, 145
“Peak Potentials Training,” 55
Peale, Norman Vincent, 89, 92, 96, 100, 102, 115, 126–27, 134, 147, 167–68, 175, 191
Pearlstein, Steven, 183–84
Peck, M. Scott, 94
Peters, Tom, 110, 112–13, 115
Peterson, Chris, 170
Phillips, Kevin, 183
Pilgrim’s Progress, The (Bunyan), 95
Pollay, David J., 173
“Positive Attitude Helped Woman Beat Cancer” (Young), 33
“Positive Mental Attitude,”104
“Positive Pals,” 97
“Positive Power” CDs, 193
positive psychology, 12, 147–76, 200–201, 204–5
positive psychology, politics of
conservatives, 168–71, 206
liberals, 169, 172
Positive Psychology Coaching (Biswas-Diener and Dean), 149
positive thinking
American culture and, 1–13
breast cancer and, 15–44
Calvinism and roots of, 74–79, 82–84, 89–92, 95–96
Carnegie and promoters of, in business, 52–54
corporate culture and, 48, 96, 99–113, 137–46
corporate downsizing and, 8–9, 45–48, 114–22, 177–80, 192–94
corporate leadership and, 106–13, 184–91
defined, 4–5
health and, 2, 5, 7, 65–72, 91–92, 124, 126, 158–66
financial meltdown and, 180–94
law of attraction and magical thinking and, 59–73
megachurches and, 123–46
motivation industry and, 9, 11–12, 47–51, 59–73, 97–122
negative people seen as menace by, 52–57
news seen as negative by, 57–59
New Thought and Christian Science and, 78–92, 133–34
Peale changes focus of, to wealth, 89–96, 159
politics and, 10, 168–69, 201–3
realism and vigilance as alternative to, 44, 195–206
Positive Weight Loss Approach Web site, 46
Powell, Colin, 98
Power of Positive Thinking, The (Peale), 92–93, 100, 102, 105, 167
Price, Fred, 134–35
Pritchett, V. S., 89
Prosper Inc., 103–4
prosperity gospel, 124–25, 134–36, 143, 177, 182–83, 192
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, The (Weber), 8
Pursuit of Happyness, The (Gardner), 185
quantum physics, 67–71, 86
Quimby, Phineas Parkhurst, 79–80, 85–87, 134, 160
Race for the Cure, 22–23
Ramtha School of Enlightenment, 62
Reagan, Ronald, 184, 198
realism, 44, 56, 158, 163, 185, 187–88, 196–200, 204–6
Reece, Roger (“Buford P. Fuddwhacker”), 186–87
Reengineering the Corporation (Champy), 106–7
Reeves, Richard, 115
[http://reflectivehappiness.com] reflectivehappiness.com, 149
Reich, Robert, 181
Relay for Life, 27
Republican Party, 167
Rice, Condoleezza, 10–11
Richards, Ellen, 81, 88
Richistan (Frank), 189
Rittenberg, Cynthia, 42
Robbins, Tony, 94, 98, 112, 185, 194
Robertson, Pat, 123
Rollin, Betty, 21, 29
Romney, Mitt, 167
Roosevelt, Teddy, 88
Rybcynski, Wytold, 138
salespeople, 100–107, 114–15, 143
Sanger, Margaret, 81
Sarno, John E., 160
“Satisfaction with Life Scale,” 170
Schofield, Penelope, 42
Schuller, Robert, 127, 131, 134, 137, 142, 145, 192
Scientific American, 11, 39, 66
Secret, The (Byrne), 11, 60–69, 72, 94, 182–83
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind (Eker), 55, 62–63, 93–94
Segerstrom, Suzanne, 165–66
self-monitoring, 36, 75–77, 89–96, 193, 203–4
Seligman, Martin, 147–63, 165–66, 168–72, 174–75, 200
Selye, Hans, 35
SERE schools, 169
Sewall, Betty, 77
Sewall, Samuel, 77
Shah of Shahs (Kapuscinski), 201–2
Shermer, Michael, 66, 68
Siegel, Bernie, 36
Simonton, O. Carl, 35–37
Smith, Adam, 192, 194
social activism, 51, 170–72, 179
Somers, Suzanne, 21
Soviet Union, 198, 202–3
Spiegel, David, 36–37
Spiegel, Rob, 101
Spock, Benjamin, 83
Sprint, 99
Stone, W. Clement, 104
Stop Smiling, Start Kvetching (Held), 158
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 77, 81
Strum, Stephen, 41
“Success 1994,” 115
Successories, 97, 115
Success through a Positive Mental Attitude (Stone and Hill), 104
Sullivan, Vicki, 116
support groups, 26–27, 36–37, 145
Swim with the Sharks without Being Eaten Alive (Mackay), 109
Take the Money and Run (film), 101
team building, 120–21, 143–44
Templeton, Sir John, 166–67, 194
Templeton Foundation, 165–68
Think and Grow Rich! (Hill), 66, 91, 94–95, 105, 192
Topchik, Gary S., 54
transcendentalism, 79, 95–96
Ugresic, Dubravka, 202
Ultimate Secret to Getting Absolutely Everything You Want, The (Hernacki), 62
unemployment, 45–48, 50, 54–55, 61, 98, 108, 113–22, 171, 178–81, 190, 192–94, 206
Unity Church, 133–34, 136
Varieties of Religious Experience, The (James), 87
vibrations, 66–67, 69, 71, 86, 200
visualization, 60, 62–64, 72, 99, 107, 112, 126, 134, 203
Vitale, Joe “Mr. Fire,” 50, 61, 63
Walton, Jonathan, 182
Warren, Rick, 136–37, 141–42, 144
wealth, 46–47, 60, 91–94, 124, 178–80, 189–90, 205–6
“Wealth Beyond Reason” training, 65
Weber, Max, 8, 77–78
We Got Fired! (Mackay), 180
Weil, Andrew, 160
Welch, Jack, 108, 113, 141, 189
Wells Fargo, 173
What the Bleep Do We Know? (film), 62, 67–68
What You Can Change . . . and What You Can’t (Seligman), 149
Whitehead, Ralph, 115–16
Whitely, Richard, 111
Whitmore, John, 62
Who Moved My Cheese? (Johnson), 48, 117–18
Whyte, William H., 53
Why the Real Estate Boom Will Not Bust (Lereah), 181
Widener, Chris, 51
Willner, Marla, 23–24
Winfrey, Oprah, 11, 47, 56, 60, 168, 204
“Winning Ways” program, 121
Wit (Edson), 25
Woodward, Bob, 10
Word of Faith movement, 134–36
Worldwide Laws of Life (Templeton), 167
Wurzelbach, Joe “the Plumber,” 180
“Yellow Wallpaper, The” (Gilman), 81
Young, Sherry, 33 Your Best Life Now (Osteen), 126, 182
Yugoslavia, 202
Zelman, Ivy, 187 Zero Limits (Vitale), 50
Ziglar, Zig, 115, 192
About the Author
BARBARA EHRENREICH is the author of sixteen books, including Dancing in the Streets and the New York Times bestsellers Nick
el and Dimed and Bait and Switch. A frequent contributor to Harper’s and the Nation, she has also been a columnist at the New York Times and Time magazine.
She can be reached at [http://www.barbaraehrenreich.com] www.barbaraehrenreich.com.