'We live in an age in which traditional beliefs have been attenuated, ridiculed, and mocked. Word of this book is rapidly spreading across America as simple folk clamor to steer their lives and country with a more virtuous compass. In his glowing foreword, Mike Wallace (of 60 Minutes fame) writes that Gordon Hinckley is an 'optimistic leader of the Mormon Church who fully deserves the almost universal admiration that he gets.' Clearly, Hinkley has struck a resounding chord with the American populace, including dyed-in-the-wool New York cynics such as Wallace. Hinckley makes a compelling case for every one of these virtues, quoting extensively from the Bible but mostly using convincing personal anecdotes (after all, he is an elder with 90 years worth of stories and wisdom). These virtues include Love, Honesty, Morality, Civility, Learning, Forgiveness, Thrift and Industry, Gratitude, Optimism, and Faith. Chapter by chapter Hinckley presents 10 old-fashioned virtues that will return America to the glory envisioned by its founding fathers. Even as he enumerates all of America's social ills (including $482 billion a year spent on gambling, rampant child neglect and abuse, school massacres, a pervasive deterioration of values) Hinckley believes there is a remedy.

'Virtue is too often neglected, if not scorned or ridiculed as old-fashioned, confining, unenlightened,' laments author Gordon Hinckley, a 90-year-old ordained leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

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