Norman Vincent Peale was one of the most influential religious figures in recent American history. His 1952 book The Power of Positive Thinking remains a perennial bestseller and has affected the lives of a vast public in the United States and around the world. 25 years after its initial publication, God's Salesman reminds readers of the vital role that Peale played in the rethinking and restructuring of American religious life in the second half of
the twentieth century.