false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176139077m/596259.jpg 596259 5 "Virtue is too often neglected, if not scorned or ridiculed as old-fashioned, confining, unenlightened," laments author Gordon Hinckley, a 90-year-old ordained leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Even as he enumerates all of America's social ills (including $482 billion a year spent on gambling, rampant child neglect and abuse, school massacres, a pervasive deterioration of values) Hinckley believes there is a remedy. Chapter by chapter Hinckley presents 10 old-fashioned virtues that will return America to the glory envisioned by its founding fathers. These virtues include Love, Honesty, Morality, Civility, Learning, Forgiveness, Thrift and Industry, Gratitude, Optimism, and Faith. Hinckley makes a compelling case for every one of these virtues, quoting extensively from the Bible but mostly using convincing personal anecdotes (after all, he is an elder with 90 years worth of stories and wisdom). In his glowing foreword, Mike Wallace (of <i>60 Minutes</i> fame) writes that Gordon Hinckley is an "optimistic leader of the Mormon Church who fully deserves the almost universal admiration that he gets." Clearly, Hinkley has struck a resounding chord with the American populace, including dyed-in-the-wool New York cynics such as Wallace. Word of this book is rapidly spreading across America as simple folk clamor to steer their lives and country with a more virtuous compass. 582938 book 2000 Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes total:3975|5:3173|4:643|3:143|2:13|1:3| 3975 18895 4693 393 5 1 false false Tue Feb 24 14:49:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 14:49:32 -0800 2009 0 1 false false Tue May 06 22:56:43 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 23:01:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 23:23:43 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 07:20:50 -0700 2009 1
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