Hill and Napoleon Hill.

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Wooden and Reagan were the children of Napoleon Hill more than they were their own fathers.

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The new faith was articulated by Napoleon Hill, who was born in a one-room cabin in the Appalachian town of Pound, Va.

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These towering optimists of 20th century America lived fantastically long lives: Napoleon Hill (1883-1970), Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), John Wooden (1910-2010), Ronald Reagan (1911-2004).

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During the worst year of the Great Depression, 1937, a writer named Napoleon Hill picked the theme out of the gutter and lifted the spirits of the country, with a best seller called Think and Grow Rich.

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