David Brooks (1) (1961–)
Autore di The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
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Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: 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
Opere di David Brooks
Opere correlate
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Collaboratore — 713 copie
Understanding Anti-Americanism: Its Origins and Impact at Home and Abroad (2004) — Collaboratore — 31 copie
Beyond the Boom: New Voices on American Life, Culture, and Politics (1990) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1961-08-22
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA (born in Canada to American parents)
- Luogo di nascita
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Luogo di residenza
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
New York, New York, USA - Istruzione
- University of Chicago (AB|History|1983)
- Attività lavorative
- neoconservative
television broadcaster
journalist - Organizzazioni
- Washington Times
Wall Street Journal
The Weekly Standard
National Review
Newsweek
The Atlantic Monthly (mostra tutto 8)
PBS Newshour
New York Times
Utenti
Discussioni
David Brooks and the end of philosophy in Philosophy and Theory (Aprile 2009)
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 10
- Opere correlate
- 9
- Utenti
- 6,359
- Popolarità
- #3,870
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 112
- ISBN
- 201
- Lingue
- 18
- Preferito da
- 9
Brooks is a good writer and an astute observer. Everyone sees the world through their specific lens. Brooks sees the world through affluent, well-heeled eyes--this is what he knows, what he lives, and the social circles through which he travels. That's an observation, not a faulting. Sometimes it shows up in his writing - like when he makes a point about how a plumber has to be super-careful to be taken as credible among an educated, academic crowd. That's likely true from the POV of an educated, academic, coastal-dwelling, Ivy-leagueish type of crowd. But the plumber? If he's mixing with that crowd at all, he's not looking to impress them and he doesn't care what they think of him--he knows plenty about life and people that many elitists don't and never will.
This book is really a gentle way to tell elitists to get out of their ivory towers, burst the bubbles they live in, or step out from behind their screen and mix it up with real people. That there's joy in understanding and seeing a person - not an identify, not a stereotype, not a political party, but the complex, nuanced, and wonder-full person right in front of them. In my experience, many don't want to, some don't know how to, and Brooks points out what they're missing. Also, he offers advice on ways to do it.
The chapter where Brooks' writing got personal is when he tells about his childhood, lifelong friend who succumbed to suicide. That got real and vulnerable and was Brooks at his best.
Recommended primarily to those who denigrate people who think differently, hold fewer degrees, or work 'dirty' jobs, as somehow less than and/or those who've ever used the phrase "flyover country" unironically.… (altro)