Tight, clean, flat, square, sharp and crisp book in DJ with small chips, nicks and tears. Previous owner's name. Underlining in pencil. See pictures. Based on a series of radio messages begun in 1935, this is his first of several inspirational self-help books. He founded Guideposts magazine in 1945 with some help from Frank Gannett (newspapers) and Branch Rickey (Brooklyn Dodgers). 

Born in Bowersville, Ohio, Norman Vincent Peale was the oldest of three brothers. His father, Charles Clifford Peale, was a physician, a Methodist minsister and a major influence on his son, who went on to earn degrees at Ohio Wesleyan University and Boston University School of Theology.