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Love Your Enemies
Author(s): Arthur C. Brooks

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?

Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an outrage industrial complex that prospers by setting American against American, creatinga culture of contemptthe habit of seeing people who disagree with us not as merely incorrect, but as worthless and defective. Maybe, like more than nine out of ten Americans, you dislike it. But hey, either you play along, or youll be left behind, right?

Wrong.

In Love Your Enemies, social scientist and author of the #1New York Times bestseller From Strength to Strength Arthur C. Brooks shows that abuse and outrage are notthe rightformula for lasting success. Brooks blends cutting-edge behavioral research, ancient wisdom, and a decade of experience leading one of Americas top policy think tanks in a work thatoffers a better way to lead basedon bridging divides and mending relationships.

Brooks prescriptions are unconventional. To bring America together, we shouldnt try to agree more. There is no need for mushy moderation, because disagreement is the secret to excellence. Civility and tolerance shouldnt be our goals, because they are hopelessly low standards. And our feelings toward our foes are irrelevant; what matters is how we choose to act.

Love Your Enemies offers a clear strategy for victory for a new generation of leaders. It is a rallying cry for people hoping for a new era of American progress. Most of all, it is a roadmap to arrive at the happiness that comes when we choose to love one another, despite our differences.

Review(s):
Arthur Brooks offers the practical prescription in Love Your Enemies that could lead to a more peaceful, just, sustainable, and healthier world.
Love Your Enemies is a handbook for a new generation of leaders who want to bring America togetherand anyone seeking to be more effective in a fractious political environment.
If we wont listen to each other, maybe we can start by listening to Arthur Brooks. Love Your Enemies offers a heartfelt and patriotic case for how we can put our contempt aside to work together again.
In Love Your Enemies, Arthur Brooks reminds us that we can disagree without being disagreeable, and that everyday citizens have the power to bring our country back together.
If youre satisfied with our toxic ideological climate, then dont bother reading this book. But if youd like to rebel against the present nonsense, Arthur Brooks can show us how to do it with joy and confidence and regardless of your political preferences.
The signal achievement of Arthur Brooks latest book is to demonstrate how the seemingly soft virtues of love, friendship, and warm-heartedness are, in point of fact, the very qualities most needed to make real progress in the rough and tumble of the political and cultural conversation.
Arthur Brooks is a…former French horn player who decided to be an egghead late in life, he is a unique mix of Catholic piety, data obsession, sartorial connoisseurism, physical fitness, old-soul wisdom, and basic decency.

ISBN:9780062888020