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Go Home for Dinner
Advice on How Faith Makes a Family and Family Makes a Life
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When Mike Pence was a young politician, reporters used to ask him: "where do you see yourself in five, ten years?"
Without fail, the former Vice President would reply, "home for dinner."
This answer was an honest assessment of his priorities. Throughout his career, Pence has been adamant about putting his family first. As he often told his staff, he'd rather lose an election than lose his family.
Go Home for Dinner is an in-depth, practical guide to balancing the demands of life with the long-term satisfaction that only a commitment to your family can bring. In this personal account, former Vice President Mike Pence champions one of his most deeply held beliefs: that faith makes a family, and family makes a life. And, through straightforward advice and personal storytelling, he shows readers how to do the same.
In short chapters, Pence walks us through the principles that he and his wife, Karen, developed to raise their family. He gives credit to his parents for setting the precedent of gathering around the dinner table and for being attentive listeners. He discusses how he and Karen prioritized their relationship, even when they struggled professionally through two failed congressional races and personally with infertility. He reveals how he learned to trust God, make difficult choices, and take leaps of faith, all with an eye to what his family needed. He also brings in examples of other friends and colleagues, to demonstrate how these principles look in the lives of other families. The Pence family is far from perfect, but the values portrayed in this book have helped them remain together—and thrive—through their extraordinary journey in public service.
Go Home for Dinner is filled with practical, timeless advice about how readers can pursue their dreams while keeping their family close. This is a book for anyone who wants to achieve their goals and put their family and faith at the center of their life—but who needs a nudge to get home in time for dinner.
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- ISBN: 9781982190385
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- ISBN: 9781982190385
- File size: 4806 KB
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- English
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December 15, 2023
The former vice president embarks on a Christian-focused look at family. In this preachy little treatise, Pence, writing with his daughter, Bond, describes how "the fate of nations, including this one, ultimately comes down to the strength of the family." This isn't a book about politics, though there are a few wan mentions; nor is it about Pence's time in office, although he does allow that some of his friends warned him that signing on as Trump's running mate "would be the end of my career." The only words about Jan. 6, 2021, come from Bond, who writes that when she commented that the invasion was "unforgivable," she was quickly upbraided by her mother, who threw out a Bible verse about God alone having the power of forgiveness (never mind the gallows out on the lawn). God comes in for the lion's share of the credit, to be sure, whether placing the idea that Pence should go into politics after his stint as a conservative radio host--here, the author praises another paragon of godly virtue, Rush Limbaugh--or affording the Pence family a good model for their daily devotions, of which, yes, going home for dinner is a central tenet. Apart from the usual obeisance, Pence spends much of the text discussing how bad things are in comparison with the good old days inside his head, which would seem to be the 1950s, a time when "Americans used to have more respect for our nation's history, for the people who sacrificed to make this country the beacon of freedom that it is today.... As the saying goes, those who forget history are destined to repeat it. We can acknowledge the injustices of the past and still be grateful to the people who brought forth the nation." A pious exercise in preaching to the choir.COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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