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Mohrbooks Literary Agency
Sebastian Ritscher
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THE ROAD TO CHARACTER

David Brooks

In his most eye-opening and deeply personal book yet, David Brooks—New York Times bestselling author of The Social Animal—tells the story of ten great lives that illustrate how character is developed, and how we can all strive to build rich inner lives, marked by humility and moral depth. In a society that emphasizes success and external achievement, The Road to Character is a book about inner worth.
In THE ROAD TO CHARACTER, Brooks argues that our hunger for wealth and status is eroding our ability to create meaningful inner lives. To show us how to live better, he looks at people whose sense of humility was fundamental to their success. What they all understood was a simple but counterintuitive truth: in order to fulfill yourself, you must learn how to forget yourself.

Go ahead and dive into this new book and you will see how it is a true exploration of struggle, character, and the path toward substantive living. It is David Brooks most personal book yet.

David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times and frequent broadcaster. His previous books include the bestsellers The Social Animal and Bobos in Paradise. His New York Times columns reach over 800,000 readers across the globe.
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Published 2015-04-21 by Random House

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Published 2015-04-21 by Random House

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UK: Penguin Press , China: Citic, Hungarian: Libri, Korean: Bookie, Brazil (Portuguese): Intrinseca (at preempt), Czech: Dobrovsky (they also picked up rights to SOCIAL ANIMAL), Japan: Hayakawa, Sweden: Volante

The road to exceptional character may be unpaved and a bit rocky, yet it is still worth the struggle. This is the basic thesis of Brooks’s engrossing treatise on personal morality in today’s materialistic, proud world. Brooks (The Social Animal) draws on the dichotomy in human nature proposed by Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchick in his 1965 essay “The Lonely Man of Faith,” which divides humanity between the external, social-based “Adam I,” and internal, moral “Adam II”…Brook’s poignant and at times quite humorous commentary on the importance of humility and virtue makes for a vital, uplifting read.