Description

New York Times best-selling author, Stephen Mansfield, traces the fascinating and influential life of Oprah Winfrey, profiling her quest for spiritual enlightenment?a well-publicized journey featuring a caravan of experts, mystics, and gurus? all claiming to have a prescription for inner peace and personal well-being. Mansfield shows how Oprah s story fits into our larger cultural experience and reveals why her spiritual discoveries have resonated so loudly in today s popular culture. In so doing, he sheds needed light on the dangers of a spiritual journey fueled solely by a desire for self-actualization.

In the end, we find that the story of Oprah is, in fact, the story of us? of a generation searching desperately for something meaningful to believe in.