Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Republican state senator who won his last election in the district 61 percent to 39 percent, says people care about tax relief, education that includes choices for their children, and the moral direction of the country. Not good news for Gore. On the subject of moral direction, people act as if Al had been in the room with a Polaroid while Bill turned Monica into a patriot, as if the only way for America finally to exorcise the beast and move on is to drive a stake through Gore's heart...
...means has Coles fallen short of the mark. It is, I will admit, somewhat ridiculous to criticize him for failing to do something he never intended to do. Lives of Moral Leadership was intended to inspire, to provoke discussion and self-examination more than anything else. And on that count, it succeeds in a subtle but undeniable way-not by raising an intellectual problem, but by encouraging that rare habit of introspection...
...some ways Lives of Moral Leadership goes beyond the simplistic discussion its language might sometimes suggest. Reading about moral leadership can bring about a serious consideration of those ideas on the part of the reader. And perhaps this is the whole point. Coles wrote the book for a general audience, and it is safe to assume that he wanted it to inform and engage the larger American public in this ongoing discussion of moral leadership...
This is not a book that Harvard undergraduates are going to buy in large or even modest quantities. We are more inclined to discuss moral leadership as an abstraction in section than as a topic of deep personal interest. The easiset way to read Coles's book is as a primer on the qualities of moral leadership, as a guide to what we have seen and looked for in moral leaders. This might also be the least appealing way to read it, as far as college students are concerned; we think we are too worldly and intelligent for such romantic...
...LIVES OF MORAL LEADERSHIP...