The Road to Character

Copyright © 2015 by David Brooks

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Excerpt from Halakhic Man by Joseph B. Soloveitchik (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1983), copyright © 1983 by the Jewish Publication Society.

Excerpt from George C. Marshall: Education of a General, 1880–1939 by Forrest C. Pogue (New York: Viking Books, 1963), copyright © 1963 and copyright renewed 1991 by George C. Marshall Research Foundation.

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Brooks, David.

The road to character / David Brooks.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-8129-9325-7

eBook ISBN 978-0-679-64503-0

1. Character. 2. Virtues. 3. Humility. I. Title.

BF818.B764 2015   170'.44—dc23   2015001791

eBook ISBN 9780679645030

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