Arthur Brooks The Conservative Heart

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The Conservative Heart Book Critique In the novel, The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and more Prosperous America, written by a New York Times bestselling Arthur, Arthur Brooks, he expresses how conservatives have been a movement of the head instead of the heart. Arthur Brooks is the 11thpresident of the American Enterprise Institute which is a nonpartisan public policy research institute and became president when Barack Obama was elected president (Brooks 1). In the American Enterprise Institute, Brooks works with scholars, policymakers, and elected officials to ensure free enterprise to all American’s (Brooks 2). At the age of nineteen, Brooks left college to travel the world and play French horn; he finally ended up …show more content…

Brooks goes on by mentioning an “agenda” and to accomplished what we just mentioned involves; faith, family, community, and work or better yet, social justice. If we go on this agenda it will take us from fighting for things to fighting for people, which may get us further. He then finishes his book by explaining how to talk so the American people will listen. First is be a moralist, he says that it’s not that conservatives are too moralistic, it’s that they’re not moralistic enough, and I would have to agree because conservatives do have very strong viewpoints on things just like liberals have strong views on the same or other things, and it seems like conservatives aren’t expressing their beliefs as much as they can or should (“The Conservative Heart” p.184). Second, is like I already mentioned, fight for people, not against things. Third is to get happy, fourth is to steal all of the best arguments, fifth is to go where you’re not welcome, six is to say it in thirty seconds; which is logically because that’s when you have the most attention, and seven is to break your bad habits (“The Conservative Heart” p.212). Brooks’ reasoning for all of the principles is to show us that we must share what is written on the conservative

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