Boomer Guru: How M. Scott Peck Guided Millions but Lost Himself on The Road Less Traveled
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (804 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01BK562LY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 357 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Lots of interesting facts" according to Robert L. Clasen. This is the only biography about Scott Peck on the Kindle library. Arthur Jones has gathered a good deal of interesting information about Scott Peck, beginning with his ancestors and working steadily to his death. Since Peck was famous, at times infamous, there was a lot of interesting information to pour through. He had access to hours and hours of taped conversations. Much of the information consists of impressions given by various people
In the 1980s and '90s, thousands of women wrote to psychiatrist M. This first-ever biography of "the nation's shrink" is that rare account: a psychiatrist on the couch. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled began with the words, "Life is difficult." And he made it difficult for his family, so difficult that only two of his three children attended his funeral. Yet Peck's own life was in turmoil. But in 1992 one woman told Life magazine that after a spiritual group session Peck had seduced her. The book spent more than a decade on the New York Times Best Seller List, longer than any other book by a living author in that category. Arthur Jones's Boomer Guru explores that dichotomy in a deeply researched biography based primarily on hours of recorded interviews with the frank but conflicted guru. Peck's The Road Less Traveled had more than 10 million "boomer" readers. On the 10th anniversary of Peck's death, this candid biography of the boomer guru is an intriguing recap both of the times and the man. Scott Peck, MD, to thank him for pulling them through the difficult times in their lives with his ground-breaking and best-selling self-help book, The Road Less Traveled (1978). His readers, and those who attended his spirit