Book of Virtues

Author: Bennett
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: The Book of Virtues was compiled by William Bennett, the Education Secretary during the Reagan administration, and published in November 1993. It spent over 80 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list and sold 2 million copies within just 14 months. To date, it has been published over 3 million copies in the United States alone. This 800-page collection has received widespread recognition and praise worldwide. It has created a miracle in American civilization and become a source of pride and dreams for Americans in the 1990s in the realm of spiritual civilization. The Book of Virtues stands out from the flashy and chaotic world—it is a truly great book that can live up to the word "great" today. It is composed of classics spanning thousands of years of human history, embodying eternal virtues and immortal literature. It is a book that deserves to be placed on every family's bookshelf and read by humanity forever. This book is a "guidebook" for moral literature, selecting stories, novels, poems, essays, and other forms of writing on virtues such as compassion, self-discipline, responsibility, friendship, work, courage, perseverance, honesty, and loyalty.