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Defiant Hope: Essays on Life, Faith, and Freedom Audiobook, by Michael Gerson Play Audiobook Sample

Defiant Hope: Essays on Life, Faith, and Freedom Audiobook

Defiant Hope: Essays on Life, Faith, and Freedom Audiobook, by Michael Gerson Play Audiobook Sample
Release Date: November 19, 2024
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Read By: Narrator Info Added Soon Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.75 hours at 2.0x Speed
Release Date: November 19, 2024
Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781668115978

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

44

Longest Chapter Length:

58:12 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

16 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

13:04 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

The best writings from George W. Bush’s speechwriter Michael Gerson, a pioneer of the compassionate conservative movement, a champion of Christian engagement, and an eloquent defender of the poor and the marginalized.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Michael Gerson possessed one of the most important consciences of his generation. As the chief speech writer for George W. Bush, he wrote the words that rallied and ennobled the nation after September 11th. He helped design and champion Bush’s PEPFAR program, which saved upwards of 20 million lives as HIV ravaged Africa. His famous line defending public education was to say that failure would amount to “a soft bigotry of low expectations.” He became one of the nation’s most eloquent columnists, who was never content to do political horse race punditry but devoted himself to the most essential causes of the time, pushing back on the authoritarianism of Donald Trump and pushing for the kind of compassionate conservatism that he dedicated his life to designing.

Defiant Hope is his writings about the things he loved—humanity, God, his dog, and his boys. Essays feature the immensely complicated sadness when you drop your children off at college for the first time. Another is about his public battle of depression. He also includes chapters about men and women who formed this great procession of Christian Reformers—John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards, William Wilberforce, and Olaudah Equiano—and the great causes to which they were devoted, from abolitionism to civil rights.

What lingers is his gracious voice across all the roles that he played, as David Brooks writes in the introduction. What you hear is “a prophet lamenting iniquity, a father and a friend capable of great bursts of gratitude and appreciation, a Christian who is sometimes buried under sadness and close to despair, but who never loses sight of that distant illuminating beacon of hope.”

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