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7+ YearsPublisher | Houghton Mifflin |
ISBN 13 | 9780547424859 |
Book Description | The heart and the fist shares one mans story of extraordinary leadership and service as both a humanitarian and a warrior in a life lived at the raw edges of the human experience greitens has seen what can be accomplished when compassion and courage come together in meaningful service as a rhodes scholar and navy seal greitens worked alongside volunteers who taught art to street children in bolivia and led us marines who hunted terrorists in iraq hes learned from nuns who fed the destitute in one of mother teresas homes for the dying in india from aid workers who healed orphaned children in rwanda and from navy seals who fought in afghanistan he excelled at the hardest military training in the world and today he works with severely wounded and disabled veterans who are rebuilding their lives as community leaders at home greitens offers each of us a new way of thinking about living a meaningful life we learn that to win any war even those we wage against ourselves to create and obtain lasting peace to save a life and even simply to live with purpose requires usevery one of usto be both good and strong |
Language | English |
Author | Eric Greitens |
Edition Number | 1 |
Publication Date | 7/1/2011 |
Number of Pages | 309 |
The Heart And The Fist: The Education Of A Humanitarian, The Making Of A Navy Seal paperback english - 7/1/2011