My parents, Michael and Lois Brooks, are still my best and toughest editors. Pete Wehner tirelessly offered counsel and advice. Yuval Levin is much younger than me but has become an intellectual mentor. Kirsten Powers read crucial parts and provided moral and emotional support throughout. Carol Quillen, the president of Davidson College, has helped me understand Augustine, and much else, much better. An ecumenical group of clergy and lay people helped carry me through a crucial time in my life, including: Stuart and Celia McAlpine, David Wolpe, Meir Soloveichik, Tim Keller, and Jerry Root. My agents, Glen Hartley and Lynn Chu, have been friends since college and will remain so through life.
Life has its vicissitudes and unexpected turns. My ex-wife, Sarah, has done and continues to do an amazing job raising our three children. Those children, Joshua, Naomi, and Aaron, are now spread around the globe, and exemplify the traits of character that any parent dreams of: courage, creativity, honesty, fortitude, and loving kindness. They don’t really need this book, but I hope they profit from it.
NOTES
CHAPTER 1: THE SHIFT
1. Wilfred M. McClay, The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America (University of North Carolina Press, 1993), 226.
2. Alonzo L. Hamby, “A Wartime Consigliere,” review of David L. Roll, The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler (Oxford University Press, 2012), Wall Street Journal, December 29, 2012.
3. David Frum, How We Got Here: The 70’s, the Decade That Brought You Modern Life (for Better or Worse) (Basic Books, 2000), 103.
4. Jean M. Twenge and W. Keith Campbell, The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement (Simon & Schuster, 2009), 13.
5. “How Young People View Their Lives, Futures and Politics: A Portrait of ‘Generation Next.’ ” The Pew Research Center For The People & The Press (January 9, 2007).
6. Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything (Penguin, 2006), 64.
7. James Davison Hunter, The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil (Basic Books, 2000), 103.
8. Twenge and Campbell, Narcissism, 248.
9. C. J. Mahaney, Humility: True Greatness (Multnomah, 2005), 70.
10. Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), 201.
11. Harry Emerson Fosdick, On Being a Real Person (Harper and Brothers, 1943), 25.
12. Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain (Harcourt, 1998), 92.
13. Henry Fairlie, The Seven Deadly Sins Today (New Republic Books, 1978), 30.
CHAPTER 2: THE SUMMONED SELF
1. David Von Drehle, Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003), 195.
2. Frances Perkins, “The Triangle Factory Fire,” lecture, Cornell University online archives. http://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/primary/lectures/francesperkinslecture.html.
3. Von Drehle, Triangle, 158.
4. George Martin, Madam Secretary: Frances Perkins; A Biography of America’s First Woman Cabinet Member (Houghton Mifflin, 1976), 85.
5. Von Drehle, Triangle, 138.
6. Von Drehle, Triangle, 130.
7. Von Drehle, Triangle, 152.
8. Von Drehle, Triangle, 146.
9. Perkins, “Triangle Fire” lecture.
10. Naomi Pasachoff, Frances Perkins: Champion of the New Deal (Oxford University Press, 1999), 30.
11. Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (Beacon, 1992), 85.
12. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, 99.
13. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, 104.
14. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, 98.
15. Mark R. Schwehn and Dorothy C. Bass, eds., Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should Do and Who We Should Be (Eerdmans, 2006), 35.
16. Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deaclass="underline" The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience (Nan Talese, 2008), 8.
17. Downey, Woman Behind the New Deal, 5.
18. Martin, Madam Secretary, 50.
19. David Hackett Fischer, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (Oxford, 1989), 895.
20. Lillian G. Paschal, “Hazing in Girls’ Colleges,” Household Ledger, 1905.
21. Martin, Madam Secretary, 46.
22. Russell Lord, “Madam Secretary,” New Yorker, September 2, 1933.
23. Mary E. Woolley, “Values of College Training for Women,” Harper’s Bazaar, September 1904.
24. Martin, Madam Secretary, 51.
25. Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House: With Autobiographical Notes (University of Illinois, 1990), 71.
26. Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House, 94.
27. Frances Perkins, “My Recollections of Florence Kelley,” Social Service Review, vol. 28, no. 1 (March 1954), 12.
28. Martin, Madam Secretary, 146.
29. Downey, Woman Behind the New Deal, 42.
30. Downey, Woman Behind the New Deal, 42.
31. Martin, Madam Secretary, 98.
32. Downey, Woman Behind the New Deal, 56.
33. Martin, Madam Secretary, 125.
34. Downey, Woman Behind the New Deal, 66.
35. Martin, Madam Secretary, 232.
36. Martin, Madam Secretary, 136.
37. Downey, Woman Behind the New Deal, 317.
38. Frances Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew (Penguin, 2011), 29.
39. Perkins, “Roosevelt I Knew,” 45.
40. Martin, Madam Secretary, 206.
41. Martin, Madam Secretary, 206.
42. Martin, Madam Secretary, 236.
43. Martin, Madam Secretary, 237.
44. Perkins, Roosevelt I Knew, 156.
45. Downey, Woman Behind the New Deal, 284.
46. Downey, Woman Behind the New Deal, 279.
47. Martin, Madam Secretary, 281.
48. Downey, Woman Behind the New Deal, 384.
49. Christopher Breiseth, “The Frances Perkins I Knew,” essay, Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center Museum (Worcester, MA).
50. Martin, Madam Secretary, 485.
51. Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History (University of Chicago Press, 2008), 63.
CHAPTER 3: SELF-CONQUEST
1. The Eisenhower Legacy: Discussions of Presidential Leadership (Bartleby Press, 1992), 21.
2. Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace (New York: Random House, 2012), 7.