Standing for Something by Gordon B. Hinckley

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.

The book includes a foreword by Mike Wallace of '60 Minutes,' who has befriended President Hinckley, and has endorsements from such American leaders as Senator Joe Liberman and William Bennett.

The values which President Hinckley highlights are: It is written for everyone, and is somewhat of a plea for society to return to certain core values that have been neglected and which are necessary to reverse the rising tide of broken homes, neglected children, and the increasingly uncivil tone of public discourse.

It is subtitled, “10 Neglected Virtues that Will Heal our Hearts and Homes.” It is the first book President Hinckley had published by a secular (non–Latter-day Saint) publisher, and the book is geared primarily toward those who are not members of the Church of Jesus Christ. Hinckley, the former prophet and president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Standing for Something is an inspiring blue-print for what we can all do - as individuals, as a nation, and as a world community - to rediscover the values that make us strong and by which all of us can work toward a brighter future.Standing for Something is a book written by Gordon B. Drawing on anecdotes from his own life, as well as from our nation today, he examines ten virtues that have proven through the ages to provide the most profound path to a better world: love, honesty, morality, civility, learning, forgiveness and mercy, thrift and industry, gratitude, optimism, and faith. In the tradition of William Bennett's Book of Virtues, Hinckley has created a classic look at the values that can change our world - and how to stand up for them. The solution lies not within our government, schools, or symbols of popular culture, but rather within ourselves, our families, and our faith. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one cannot lose hope. Families are splintering around us, our children are becoming alienated from their great cultural heritage, and our leaders seem increasingly out of touch. Sadly, many today would say ours is a nation in crisis. No nation can be greater than the strength of its individual homes or the virtue of its people. With an introduction read by Mike Wallace

Standing for Something by Gordon B. Hinckley