The author has been a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the US Attorney General's Task Force on Violent Crime, the Commission on Presidential Scholars, and the White House Commission on Crime. This study presents his analysis of character.
'It is difficult to imagine any subject more crucial to the analysis of social affairs today than that of character. And it is impossible to imagine any book more enlightening on this subject than this collection of essays by one of our most distinguished social thinkers. Ranging from private virtues through public policies, from education through crime, from the 1940s through the 1990s, James Q. Wilson provides original and provocative commentaries on our most urgent problems.' - Gertrude Himmelfarb, Author, The De-Moralization of Society: From Victory Virtues to Modern Values
