David Brooks (1) (1961–)
Auteur de The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent David Brooks, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
David Brooks was born in Toronto, Canada on August 11, 1961. He received a degree in history from the University of Chicago in 1983. After graduation, he worked as a police reporter for the City News Bureau. His other jobs include numerous posts at The Wall Street Journal, a senior editor at The afficher plus Weekly Standard, and a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly. He currently is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times since 2003 and a weekly commentator on PBS NewsHour. He is the author of the several books including Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There, On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense, and The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement. He is also the editor of the anthology Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing. David Brooks made the New York Times Best Seller List with his title Social Animal: the Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement and The Road to Character. (Publisher Provided) afficher moins
Crédit image: David Brooks speaks with David Rubenstein on the National Book Festival Main Stage, August 31, 2019. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress By Library of Congress Life - 20190831SM0850.jpg, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82899285
Œuvres de David Brooks
Young People's Lessons in Character 3 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1961-08-22
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA (born in Canada to American parents)
- Lieu de naissance
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Lieux de résidence
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
New York, New York, USA - Études
- University of Chicago (AB|History|1983)
- Professions
- neoconservative
television broadcaster
journalist - Organisations
- Washington Times
Wall Street Journal
The Weekly Standard
National Review
Newsweek
The Atlantic Monthly (tout afficher 8)
PBS Newshour
New York Times
Membres
Discussions
David Brooks and the end of philosophy à Philosophy and Theory (Avril 2009)
Critiques
The Road to Character par David Brooks
David Brooks is a far better writer than I knew. The book is a collection of well-written short biographies of a number of people (such as Dwight Eisenhower, George Marshall, Frances Perkins, George Elliot, etc) describing the trials and tribulations they endured that allowed them to build character and achieve deserved prominence. A final chapter summarizes the biographies and describes some of the commonality of the experience of the subjects.
Now, in The Road to Character, he focuses on 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 “résumé 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.
I will admit that some chapters rang truer than others in regards to the biographical examples. I really didn't connect with Eisenhower and a couple others. Some started strong and then became weaker. Some went the other direction of weak to strong. I think this is a reflection of my own preference. My preference were those sections regarding Montaigne, Saint Augustine, Frances Perkins, Eisenhower's mother, George Eliot, George C. Marshall, and A. Philip Randolph. Eisenhower and Bayard Rustin didn't make any positive impression on me.
The final chapter did a good wrap. I will be thinking on Mr. Brooks' argument for distinction between Adam I and Adam II for some time. I couldn't help but reflect on Ecclesiastes as I read this book. Many of his arguments and point can be summed up in that one book of the Bible... one of my favorites.… (plus d'informations)
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.
I will admit that some chapters rang truer than others in regards to the biographical examples. I really didn't connect with Eisenhower and a couple others. Some started strong and then became weaker. Some went the other direction of weak to strong. I think this is a reflection of my own preference. My preference were those sections regarding Montaigne, Saint Augustine, Frances Perkins, Eisenhower's mother, George Eliot, George C. Marshall, and A. Philip Randolph. Eisenhower and Bayard Rustin didn't make any positive impression on me.
The final chapter did a good wrap. I will be thinking on Mr. Brooks' argument for distinction between Adam I and Adam II for some time. I couldn't help but reflect on Ecclesiastes as I read this book. Many of his arguments and point can be summed up in that one book of the Bible... one of my favorites.… (plus d'informations)
A lot of the stuff in this book is stuff I already believe. For example, good relationships make life worth living, the early childhood years have a profound effect on later development, most people wildly overestimate the extent to which they are in control of their lives, the culture you grew up in plays a huge role in determining your values and character. These are not radical beliefs, but, as Mr. Brooks says, people love to hear other people confirming their beliefs. So I checked this out as an audiobook and listened to it. (And by the way, the narrator was great.)
Mr. Brooks cited like 200 studies over the course of the book, weaving the "science" in with the story of a fictional couple who embody some of the principles. I put "science" in quotes because science isn't really that good at figuring out people. I think Mr. Brooks would agree with me here. Still, he quotes study after study.
I don't think I'd recommend this unless you like to read the "Findings" section in Harper's, which I do.… (plus d'informations)
Mr. Brooks cited like 200 studies over the course of the book, weaving the "science" in with the story of a fictional couple who embody some of the principles. I put "science" in quotes because science isn't really that good at figuring out people. I think Mr. Brooks would agree with me here. Still, he quotes study after study.
I don't think I'd recommend this unless you like to read the "Findings" section in Harper's, which I do.… (plus d'informations)
Enhanced my understanding of Americans.
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