The Resource The road to character, David Brooks
The road to character, David Brooks
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The item The road to character, David Brooks represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library.
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- Summary
- New York Times columnist David Brooks examines the deeper values that should inform our lives. Responding to what he calls the culture of the Big Me, which emphasizes external success, Brooks challenges us, and himself, to rebalance the scales between our "resume virtues" -- achieving wealth, fame, and status -- and our "eulogy virtues," those that exist at the core of our being: kindness, bravery, honesty, or faithfulness, focusing on what kind of relationships we have formed. 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 provides an opportunity for us to rethink our priorities, and strive to build rich inner lives marked by humility and moral depth. "Joy," David Brooks writes, "is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes."
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 625 pages (large print)
- Note
- "Thorndike Press large print basic."
- Contents
-
- The shift
- The summoned self
- Self-conquest
- Struggle
- Self-mastery
- Dignity
- Love
- Ordered love
- Self-examination
- The Big Me
- Isbn
- 9781410482785
- Label
- The road to character
- Title
- The road to character
- Statement of responsibility
- David Brooks
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- New York Times columnist David Brooks examines the deeper values that should inform our lives. Responding to what he calls the culture of the Big Me, which emphasizes external success, Brooks challenges us, and himself, to rebalance the scales between our "resume virtues" -- achieving wealth, fame, and status -- and our "eulogy virtues," those that exist at the core of our being: kindness, bravery, honesty, or faithfulness, focusing on what kind of relationships we have formed. 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 provides an opportunity for us to rethink our priorities, and strive to build rich inner lives marked by humility and moral depth. "Joy," David Brooks writes, "is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes."
- Summary
- "#1 New York Times bestselling author David Brooks, a controversial and eye-opening look at how our culture has lost sight of the value of humility - defined as the opposite of self-preoccupation - and why only an engaged inner life can yield true meaning and fulfillment"--
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10409792
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1961-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Brooks, David
- Dewey number
- 170/.44
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BF818
- LC item number
- .B764 2015b
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Character
- Character
- Virtues
- Humility
- Large type books
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The road to character, David Brooks
- Note
- "Thorndike Press large print basic."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-564) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The shift -- The summoned self -- Self-conquest -- Struggle -- Self-mastery -- Dignity -- Love -- Ordered love -- Self-examination -- The Big Me
- Control code
- 21056181
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 625 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410482785
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2015018366
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other control number
- 9781410482785
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn910009299
- (OCoLC)910009299
- Label
- The road to character, David Brooks
- Note
- "Thorndike Press large print basic."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-564) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The shift -- The summoned self -- Self-conquest -- Struggle -- Self-mastery -- Dignity -- Love -- Ordered love -- Self-examination -- The Big Me
- Control code
- 21056181
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 625 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410482785
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2015018366
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other control number
- 9781410482785
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn910009299
- (OCoLC)910009299
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