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The road to character / David Brooks.

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-- New York TimesThe Social Animal, Looking to some of the world's greatest thinkers and inspiring leaders, Brooks explores how, through internal struggle and a sense of their own limitations, they have built a strong inner character. Labor activist Frances Perkins understood the need to suppress parts of herself so that she could be an instrument in a larger cause. Dwight Eisenhower organized his life not around impulsive self-expression but considered self-restraint. Dorothy Day, a devout Catholic convert and champion of the poor, learned as a young woman the vocabulary of simplicity and surrender. Civil rights pioneers A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin learned reticence and the logic of self-discipline, the need to distrust oneself even while waging a noble crusade. Blending psychology, politics, spirituality, and confessional, -- The Road to Character--Pico Iyer, -- The Road to Character "Brooks--the -- -- -- From the Hardcover edition.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780679645030
  • ISBN: 0679645039
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 300 pages)
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, [2015]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-284) and index.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Character.
Virtues.
PHILOSOPHY/Ethics & Moral Philosophy
SELF-HELP/Personal Growth
SOCIAL SCIENCE/Sociology
Genre: Electronic books.

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