Beautiful Souls The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times

Name: Beautiful Souls The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
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ISBN: 9781250024084

ISBN-10: 1250024080

ISBN-13: 9781250024084

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Authors: Eyal Press

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"A hymn to the mystery of disobedience... What makes you eager to push this book into the hands of the next person you meet are the small, still moments, epics captured in miniature....Essential.' - Mark Oppenheimer, The New York TimesHistory has produced many specimens of the banality of evil, but what about its flipside, what impels ordinary people to defy the sway of authority and convention? Through these dramatic stories of unlikely resisters, Eyal Press shows that the boldest acts of dissent are often carried out not only by radicals seeking to overthrow the system but also by true believers who cling with unusual fierceness to their convictions. Drawing on groundbreaking research by…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 2/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.28" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Prologue



Disobeying the Law



Defying the Group



The Rules of Conscience



The Price of Raising One's Voice


Epilogue


Notes


Acknowledgments