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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Brooks, David, 1961- author.     Subjects     Character.     Virtues.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Brooks, David, 1961- author.       by title:      The road to characte...         MARC Display

The road to character [electronic resource] / David Brooks. by Brooks, David, 1961- author. New York : Random House, c2015. Subjects Character.   Virtues. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=D60094EF-23DE-476E-BA4E-D5C3EE20FB94 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{D60094EF-23DE-476E-BA4E-D5C3EE20FB94}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780679645030 (electronic bk.) 0679645039 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (xvii, 300 pages) Edition:  First edition. Contents:  The shift -- The summoned self -- Self-conquest -- Struggle -- Self-mastery -- Dignity -- Love -- Ordered love -- Self-examination -- The big me. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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