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Others who were dragooned into reading and commenting on chapters include Bob Richardson, Ben Ehrenreich, Robert Orsi,
Steve Eisman, Gary Long, and the delightful Eric Dezenhall. I also thank the many people who took time to talk or correspond with me along the way, including Catherine Albanese, Rosa Brooks, James Champy, David Collins, Aine Donovan, Marla Frederick, Carol Graham, Jonathan Haidt, Arlie Hochschild, Robert Jackall, Janet McIntosh, Helen Meldrum, Tom Morris, Nomi Prins, Ashley Pinnington, Vickie Sullivan, Howard Tennen, and Neil Weinstein. Sanho Tree and Tim Townsend shared their research on the Templeton Foundation with me; Diane Alexander provided invaluable assistance at many stages in the process.
Kris Dahl was more than the agent for this book; she was a source of important contacts and insights. Much thanks to Riva Hocherman for her insightful suggestions and to Roslyn Schloss for her expert copyediting. And there’s no adequate way to thank my editor, Sara Bershtel, whose humanism and laserlike logic inform every line of this book.
Index
Acker, Kathy,
21
Addams, Jane,
81
AIDS/HIV,
21
,
26
,
35
,
39
Alarm One,
103
Albanese, Catherine,
63
Allen, Woody,
101
Alzheimer’s disease,
161
American Cancer Society,
27
,
30
American Management Association,
113
American Psychological Association (APA),
147
,
170
“America the Boastful” (Krugman),
7
Amway,
104–5
,
142
Anker, Roy M.,
85
Armstrong, Lance,
28
Assaraf, John,
64
Association of Private Enterprise Education,
168
AT&T,
112
,
115
,
120
“Authentic Happiness Inventory,”
155–6
,
159
Authentic Happiness
(Seligman),
149–50
,
152–3
,
159
,
161
,
163
Bad Money
(Phillips),
183
Bait and Switch
(Ehrenreich),
178
Baker, Dean,
183
Baldwin, James,
1
Balmer, Randall,
138
Barnum, P. T.,
50
Beard, Charles M.,
81–84
Bear Stearns,
185
Become a Better You
(Osteen),
126
Beecher, Catharine,
81–82
Beecher, George,
77
,
81–82
Beecher, Lyman,
82
“Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect, The” (Diener),
159
Bernstein, Jared,
178
Bezaire, Bruce,
139
Big Squeeze, The
(Greenhouse),
178
Black, Jonathan,
106
Blunt, Ed,
193
Boniwell, Ilona,
173–74
Bosom Buds message board,
27
Bowen, Rev. Will,
56–57
,
134
brain, “catastrophic,”
151
Braley, Judy,
57–59
breast cancer,
15–44
,
84
,
88
,
162
Breast Cancer Action,
25
n Breast Friends Web site,
26
Brinker, Nancy,
22
,
28
Brinker, Susan,
22
Brodsky, Joseph,
1
Brody, Jane,
28
Brookings Institution,
180
Brown, Michael,
11
Buddhism,
112
Burnet, McFarlane,
38
Burton, Robert,
77
,
82
Bush, George W.,
9–11
,
167
,
192
Business Roundtable,
109
Business Week
,
110–11
Butler, Anthea,
182
Byrne, Rhonda,
60–62
,
67–69
,
72
,
183
,
191
,
205
cancer,
15–44
,
160
,
162
Canfield, Jack,
61
Carnegie, Dale,
52–53
Caywood, Clarke,
107
Cerulo, Karen,
10
Challenge to America
(film),
94
Champy, James,
106
Cherry, Cindy,
28
Chicken Soup for the Soul
(Canfield),
61
Chopra, Deepak,
41–42
Christian right,
7
,
123–24
Christian Science,
86–90
,
133
,
136
chronic fatigue syndrome,
80
Church Marketing Sucks Web site,
137
civil rights movement,
135
Clinton, Bill,
9–10
,
192
Communism,
7
,
202–3
“complaint free” church,
56–57
Complaint Free World, A
(Bowen),
134
Copeland, Gloria,
125
Copeland, Kenneth,
125
corporate managers (CEOs),
12
,
106–13
,
141–45
,
180
,
184–85
,
188–89
Cosby, Bill,
98
Countrywide Mortgage,
185–86
Covey, Stephen,
94
,
142
Coyne, James,
37–38
Creighton, James L.,
35
crisis managers,
184–85
,
190
critical thinking,
199–200
Crunch
(Bernstein),
178
Daisy Awareness Necklace,
23
Dare to Be Great,
94
Darrah, Charles N.,
114
Death of a Salesman
(Miller),
102
depression,
2
,
58
,
169
antidepressants and,
3–4
Calvinism and,
74–78
healthier lifestyle and,
162–63
invalidism and,
84–86
motivation industry and,
149–51
Depression, Great,
179
,
192
,
194
[http://despair.com]
despair.com,
121–22
Dezenhall, Eric,
184–85
,
189
Diener, Ed,
151
,
155
,
158
,
170
,
175–76
Discovering the Laws of Life
(Templeton),
167
“Does Positive Affect Influence Health” (Pressman and Cohen),
164–65
Dollar, Creflo,
125
,
135
,
177
,
182–83
dot-com bust,
10
,
181
Douglas, Ann,
74
,
83
Dow 36,000
(Glassman),
181
downsizing,
100
,
108
,
113–22
,
145
,
178
,
180
Doyle, Bob,
65
Dresser, Annetta,
87
Drucker, Peter,
142
,
144
economic inequality,
7
,
46
,
170
,
178–81
,
189–90
Economist
,
141
,
144
Eddy, Mary Baker,
79–89
,
136
,
192
,
200–201
Eirkerenkoetter, Frederick “Reverend Ike,”
135
Eisman, Steve,
187
,
190–91
Eker, T. Harv,
55
,
62
,
93–94
Eliade, Mircea,
29
Ellen DeGeneres Show
(TV program),
60
Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
78–80
,
88–89
,
95
“End of Wall Street’s Boom, The” (Lewis),
187
Esalen,
112
evolution,
40
,
151
,
166
,
196
Falcon, Armando,
188
Falwell, Jerry,
123
Fannie Mae,
188
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA),
11
Federalist Society,
168
Federal Reserve,
191
“Final Frontier, The” (workshop),
70
financial meltdown,
8–9
,
11–12
,
180–94
,
206
First Year of the Rest of Your Life, The
(Honea
)
,
28
,
31–32
Fitzgerald, Frances,
139
Ford, Betty,
21
Fortune
,
112–13
Four Pillars of Prosperity, The
(Gaines),
134
Frank, Robert,
189
Fraser, Jill Andresky,
119
Freddie Mac,
181
,
188
Freedom’s Watch,
167
Friedman, Milton,
168
Fuld, Richard,
187–90
Gaines, Edwene,
134
Gardner, Chris,
185
Gawande, Atul,
200
Gelband, Mike,
187–88
Gell-Mann, Murray,
68
General Electric (GE),
108
,
113
,
189
“Get Motivated!” rallies,
98
,
100
,
192
Getting Well Again
(Simonton, Matthews-Simonton, and Creighton),
35
Gift of Cancer, The
(McNerney),
29
Gilbert, Daniel,
170
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins,
81
Gitomer, Jeffrey,
55
,
57–58
,
94–95
Giuliani, Rudolph,
192
Gladwell, Malcolm,
141–42
Glassman, James,
181
Glengarry Glen Ross
(Mamet),
102
Goodhart, Sue,
98–100
Good News Blog,
58
Gosselin, Peter,
178
Grassley, Chuck,
125
Great Risk Shift, The
(Hacker),
178
Greenhouse, Steven,
178
Greenspan, Alan,
191
Greenwald, Bruce C.N.,
186
Gregory, Joe,
184
,
190
group think,
196–97
Hacker, Jacob,
178
Hagin, Kenneth,
127
,
134–35
Haidt, Jonathan,
169
Handbook of Positive Psychology
(Snyder and Lopez),
163–64
Happiness 101 courses,
174
“Happiness and Its Causes” (conference),
193
happiness equation,
156–58
,
171–72
,
205
Happy News Web site,
58
,
173
Happy Planet Index,
4
Harrison, Milmon,
135
health insurance,
32
,
114
,
150
,
178
,
192
heart disease,
20–21
,
35
,
162
Held, Barbara,
158
,
162
Heritage Foundation,
168
Hernacki, Mike,
62
,
65
High Wire
(Gosselin),
178
Hill, Napoleon,
91
,
94
,
104–5
,
127
,
192
Himmelfarb, Gertrude,
168
Hinn, Benny,
125

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