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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.

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

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

Calvinism,
8
,
74–79
,
82–96
,
123
,
128
,
153–54
,
159
,
204
,
206

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

coaching,
9
,
46–47
,
50
,
61–72
,
86
,
98
,
99
n,
100
,
115–17
,
149–50
,
185
,
188–89
,
205

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

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]

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

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