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When No One Sees:

The Importance of Character in an Age of Image
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Navpress, Aug 15, 2000 - 329 pages
Guinness offers a compelling analysis of current culture along with profiles of historic individuals of model character, based on modern society, other faiths and 3,000 years of history. He illustrates how character is built and tested, presenting practical help for bringing about change in personal character.

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User Review  - Widsith - Goodreads

When No One Sees: The Importance of Character in an Age of Image by Os Guinness (2000) Read full review

Review: When No One Sees: The Importance of Character in an Age of Image

User Review  - Laurie - Goodreads

Wonderful collection of excerpts from biography, autobiography, history and other classic literature on aspects of character and how character is formed. Everything from Plato and Sophocles through Machiavelli to Thomas More to Winston Churchill and even some later 20 C. writings. Read full review

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About the author (2000)

Os Guinness was born in China and educated in England. He did undergraduate studies at the University of London and postgraduate work at Oriel College, Oxford, where he earned a D.Phil in the social sciences. Formerly a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Os is currently Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum in McLean, Virginia. Widely traveled, he has written or edited more than twenty books, including "The American Hour," "Time for Truth, "and "The Call," He makes his home in northern Virginia.

"From the Hardcover edition.