Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781429950084 (1429950080)
Publish date: February 14th 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Book Club,
War,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Leadership,
Psychology,
Social Movements,
Social Justice
A fascinating, provocative book that seeks to explain the behavior of "righteous" individuals--those who, when all those around them do evil or are silently complicit in it, are not--people who break ranks, act alone, and risk everything including their lives in order to do the moral thing.