Cheryl Mendelson Livres

The modern Mrs Beeton. Home Comforts is the most comprehensive household bible on the market, destined to stay in print for decades.

Set in a rapidly gentrifying New York City neighborhood in 1999, the novel captures the essence of a specific time and place with a style reminiscent of Anthony Trollope. The story offers a richly engaging narrative that reflects on the complexities of modern life, similar to the themes explored in The Way We Live Now. Cheryl Mendelson’s debut novel combines her skillful storytelling with the relatable charm that made her previous nonfiction work a bestseller, promising an immersive reading experience.

Set in the vibrant Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, the story revolves around Peter Frankel, a successful lawyer leading a seemingly perfect life with his accomplished wife and Ivy League-educated children. The narrative explores the complexities of their existence amidst a diverse community of academics and artists, revealing the pressures and expectations that accompany their privileged lifestyle. As the characters navigate personal and professional challenges, the story delves into themes of ambition, family dynamics, and the search for fulfillment.

The Good Life is an engaging, reasoned look at American how the angry political right hijacks and corrupts ideas about morality, how the fringe political left abandons the moral outlook, and how antimoralism from many sources results in cruelty, harsh law, dangerous irrationality, corrupt religion, greed, and gross inequality, and undermines American democracy. Cheryl Mendelson reminds us how far these trends have taken us from our roots, and how a humane democracy, with its freedoms, depends on the moral sense of its citizens.Medelson gives clear-sighted descriptions, free of ideology, of what morality really is, tracing it to its psychological roots, and of the antimoralism behind familiar cultural tics like authoritarianism, the culture of "cool," irrationalist movements in politics and religion, and the sterility of academic attempts to understand the moral life. Along the way, she gives a clear, persuasive explanation of why moral truth exists and why believing this doesn't force us to be dogmatic and judgmental. Mendelson's book is a bracing polemic, but it is also inspiring and, with its eye-opening analysis of the moral mentality, an education in what it means to be moral in an antimoral world.

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