Ebook: Does character matter?: essays on opportunity and the American dream

Sixteen thoughtful writers consider character cultivation. Richard Reeves introduces this collection of short essays with a challenge: ""I defy you to find a richer set of writings on the philosophical, empirical, and practical issues raised by a focus on character, and in particular its relationship to questions of opportunity.""The evidence? The works of sixteen thoughtful skeptics of and enthusiasts for the public endeavor of character cultivation. The authors in this collection provide differing political perspectives to give at least equal weight to the moral dimensions of character as we.