Psychiana Man: A Mail-Order Prophet, His Followers, and the Power of Belief in Hard Times

by Brandon R Schrand and Brandon R. Schrand

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Six weeks after the 1929 stock market crash, Frank Bruce Robinson created a self-help religion he called Psychiana. An ingenious mass-marketing pioneer, he sold a correspondence course promising health, wealth, and happiness to those who believed in the "God Power." In the midst of the Great Depression, his mail-order religion with a money-back guarantee swept the United States and spread to some sixty-seven countries--or so its founder claimed--to...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0874224047

ISBN13:9780874224047

Release Date:March 2021

Publisher:Washington State University Press

Length:414 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.6" x 9.6"

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