Fortitude : American resilience in the era of outrage
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Author
Published
New York : Twelve, 2020.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Status
John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Nonfiction
359.984092 CRE
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359.984092 CRE
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Autobiographies.
Crenshaw, Dan, -- 1984-
Disabled veterans -- United States -- Biography.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Psychology, Military.
Resilience (Personality trait)
Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.
Soldiers -- United States -- Psychology.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-2021
United States. -- Navy -- Officers -- Biography.
United States. -- Navy. -- SEALs -- Biography.
Crenshaw, Dan, -- 1984-
Disabled veterans -- United States -- Biography.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Psychology, Military.
Resilience (Personality trait)
Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.
Soldiers -- United States -- Psychology.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-2021
United States. -- Navy -- Officers -- Biography.
United States. -- Navy. -- SEALs -- Biography.
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Published
New York : Twelve, 2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
v, 249 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
In 2012, on his third tour of duty in Afghanistan, a roadside bomb took Dan Crenshaw's right eye. When he learned how to see again, he didn't want anyone's pity. People shouldn't feel sorry for him, he decided, and they shouldn't feel sorry for themselves either. Most people's everyday challenges aren't as extreme as surviving combat or working to regain their sight, but that's just Crenshaw's point: If we can meet life's toughest challenges without resenting our luck or complaining, minor daily obstacles aren't worth our outrage. "Microaggressions" and "triggers" from mere words mean little to someone who's had bullets fly by their head. That's Crenshaw's simple lesson in FORTITUDE: Lighten up, toughen up, and get to work on what's important (hint: it's not giving into a culture of outrage, playing the victim, and seeking an apology). FORTITUDE is a no-nonsense advice book for a society desperately in need of tough love. With meditations on perseverance, failure, and finding much-needed heroes, the book is the antidote for a prevailing "safety culture" of trigger warnings and safe spaces. Interspersed with lessons and advice is Crenshaw's own story of how an average American kid from the Houston suburbs has faced all sorts of unexpected situations -- from war zones to the halls of Congress -- and managed to navigate them all with a few simple tricks: a sense of humor and an even greater sense that, no matter what anyone else around us says or does, we are in control of our own destiny.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Crenshaw, D. (2020). Fortitude: American resilience in the era of outrage (First edition.). Twelve.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Crenshaw, Dan, 1984-. 2020. Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage. Twelve.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Crenshaw, Dan, 1984-. Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage Twelve, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Crenshaw, Dan. Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage First edition., Twelve, 2020.
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