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100 1  Brooks, David,|d1961-|eauthor. 
245 14 The road to character /|cDavid Brooks. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bRandom House,|c[2015] 
300    xvii, 300 pages ;|c25 cm. 
336    text|2rdacontent. 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia. 
338    volume|2rdacarrier. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-284) and 
       index. 
520    With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that
       have brought millions of readers to his New York Times 
       column and his previous bestsellers, David Brooks has 
       consistently illuminated our daily lives in surprising and
       original ways. In The Social Animal, he explored the 
       neuroscience of human connection and how we can flourish 
       together. 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. 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.” 
650  0 Character. 
650  0 Virtues.