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The Northwood University community welcomes best-selling author, free-market advocate, Harvard University professor, and columnist for The Atlantic, Arthur C. Brooks. His recent work includes the book, “Love Your Enemies (How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt)” which is this year’s Northwood University Omniquest Selection.
This year's selection for Northwood's Omniquest Program is assigned reading for all students and the broader Northwood community. Faculty are also encouraged to incorporate its themes into academic courses and activities.
The message of ending political polarization is timely and welcomed by students, faculty, staff and the general public. Written by a leading defender of the free enterprise system, it is not polemical and could help to create a culture of free inquiry and respect for others.
“The practical advice offered here on ‘disagreeing better’ and principled leadership is helpful,” stated economics professor Dale Matcheck, on behalf of the Omniquest selection committee.
Thursday, March 17, 2022
6:15 p.m. to 7:15 p.m.
Book signing to follow keynote address
Riepma Arena
Northwood University
4000 Whiting Dr., Midland, MI 48640
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Arthur C. Brooks is the William Henry Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. Before joining the Harvard faculty in July of 2019, he served for ten years as president of the Washington, D.C.-based American Enterprise Institute (AEI), one of the world’s leading think tanks.
Brooks has written the national bestsellers “Love Your Enemies” (2019) and “The Conservative Heart” (2015), as well as the forthcoming book “From Strength to Strength” to be published in February 2022. He has also published dozens of academic journal articles and the textbook “Social Entrepreneurship” (2008). He is a columnist for The Atlantic, host of the podcast “How to Build a Happy Life,” and subject of the 2019 documentary film “The Pursuit,” which Variety named as one of the “Best Documentaries on Netflix” in August 2019. He gives more than 100 speeches per year around the U.S., Europe, and Asia."
Brooks began his career as a classical French hornist, leaving college at 19, touring and recording with the Annapolis Brass Quintet and later the City Orchestra of Barcelona. In his late twenties, while still performing, he returned to school, earning a BA through distance learning at Thomas Edison State College, and then an MA in economics from Florida Atlantic University. At 31, he left music and earned an MPhil and PhD in public policy analysis from the Rand Graduate School, during which time he worked as an analyst for the Rand Corporation’s Project Air Force.
Brooks then spent 10 years as a university professor, becoming a full professor at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in his seventh year out of graduate school and occupying the Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business and Government. During this decade, Brooks published 60 peer- reviewed articles and several books, including the textbook “Social Entrepreneurship” (2008).
In 2009, Brooks became the 11th president of AEI, also holding the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Free Enterprise. Under his leadership, the Institute more than doubled its annual revenues, deepened its outreach to leaders across the ideological spectrum, and expanded its research portfolio to include work on poverty, happiness, and human potential. During this period, he was selected as one of Fortune Magazine’s “50 World’s Greatest Leaders” and was awarded six honorary doctorates.
Originally from Seattle, Brooks currently lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with his wife Ester Munt-Brooks, who is a native of Barcelona. They have three children, Joaquim, Carlos, and Marina.
