# The Social Animal

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- Book: [The Social Animal](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-brooks/the-social-animal) ([The Social Animal.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-brooks/the-social-animal.md))
- Authors: [David Brooks](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-brooks)
- Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
- ISBN: 978-08-1297-937-4
- Pages: 448
- Published: 2012-01-03
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing...