The Personal Atmosphere

About this book

Every person seems to carry an atmosphere into a room. Frank Channing Haddock asks whether that impression can be cultivated through attention, character and will.

The Personal Atmosphere belongs to the self-development movement that linked confidence, influence and moral habits to a theory of personal magnetism. Its practical advice sits beside claims about unseen forces that lack scientific support. The book is revealing for its portrait of an age increasingly concerned with the power of personality and the possibility of consciously shaping how one meets the world.