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David Gordon Brooks (born 12 January 1953 in Canberra) is an Australian poet, novelist, short-fiction writer and essayist.He is the author of four published novels, four collections of short stories and five collections of poetry, and his work has won or been shortlisted for major prizes.
The Road to Character is the fourth book written by journalist David Brooks. Brooks taught an undergraduate course at Yale University for three years during the 2010s on humility, the subject of this book. [1] Published in 2015, the author says, "I wrote it, to be honest, to save my own soul."
Bobos are noted for their aversion to conspicuous consumption while emphasizing the "necessities" of life. Brooks argues that they feel guilty in the way typical of the so-called "greed era" of the 1980s so they prefer to spend extravagantly on kitchens, showers, and other common facilities of everyday life.
The book continually refers to two fictional characters 'Harold' and 'Erica', used by Brooks as examples of how people's emotional personality changes over time. [1] [2] The book debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. [3] It reached the No. 3 spot on the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list for non-fiction (as of April 3, 2011). [4]
Stanley A. Burroughs (October 9, 1903 – June 16, 1991) was an American naturopath and promoter of pseudomedicine known for inventing the Master Cleanse or "lemonade" diet, which he published in his book The Master Cleanser.
David Brooks (commentator) (born 1961), commentator for The New York Times and other publications David Brooks (author) (born 1953), Australian author of short stories and co-editor of Southerly David H. M. Brooks (1950–1996), South African philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Cape Town