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Character: Life Lessons in Courage, Integrity, and Leadership profiles individuals whose lives have inspired the world with their leadership: Colin Powell, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Muhammed Anwar Sadat, Mother Teresa, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Steve Jobs, Frederick Banting, Walt Disney, Václav Havel, Susan B. Anthony and Emmeline Pankhurst, Stephen Hawking, Margaret Chase Smith, Bill Russell, Julia Child, Winston Churchill, Arthur Ashe, Lou Gehrig, Florence Nightingale and Edith Cavell, Eleanor Roosevelt, John Wooden, John McCain, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Margaret Thatcher, Paul Volcker, Katherine Graham, Jimmy Stewart, Theodore Hesburgh and S. P. Hinduja.
“The profiles in this book are about people who are exceptional examples of character. They’re inspirational because they used their abilities at their highest levels to work for causes they believed in. Because of character, they influenced the world for good,” says Dilenschneider. “Reading about admirable people is like creating little computer programs in your head that guide you to stretch further and to do more to live up to what you’re capable of. Reading about inspirational people enables you to do what Charlie ‘Tremendous’ Jones, the great advocate for reading, used to say: ‘In five years, you’ll be the same person you are today, except for the people you meet and the books you read.’ The book provides the vision to transcend day-to-day living and embrace the chance to use your talents and abilities at their highest level to make the world a better place. It’s a chance to encourage the highest and best aspects of your character.”
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