PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewBrooks beholds America’s 21st-century tribal feuds...with a clear, intelligent eye and a hospitable attitude that is rightly focused on the spiritual dimensions of the problem ... Love Your Enemies can be seen as an informal handbook of attitudes and behaviors: Castiglione for the Twitter age. The reader may be left torn between admiring it as an example of Kafka’s \'A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us,\' or dismissing it with Hemingway’s \'Isn’t it pretty to think so?\' ... [H.L] Mencken would probably have dismissed Brooks as a sentimentalist— \'an evangelist,\' in Mencken’s scornful term. A useful and welcome evangelist, I’d say.
