Emmet Fox
1886 – 1951 · Ireland · New Thought, Theology
Filled New York auditoriums in the Depression; his writing shaped early Alcoholics Anonymous.
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- Norman Vincent Peale
1898 – 1993 · New Thought, Theology
Fox's metaphysical preaching in New York is Peale's direct precedent.
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