| Essays on Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Bertrand Russell, Aung San Suu Kyi & Nadezhda Tolokonnik First Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Blaisdell, Bob (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486793818 ISBN-13: 9780486793818 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $7.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | American - General - History | Americas (north Central South West Indies) - History | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 303.61 |
| LCCN: 2015039464 |
| Series: Dover Thrift Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5" W x 8" (0.30 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Inexpensive but substantial, this anthology ranges from Henry David Thoreau's great nineteenth-century polemics Civil Disobedience and Slavery in Massachusetts to more recent writings by Aung San Suu Kyi as well as Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of the subversive Russian rock group Pussy Riot. Additional selections include Leo Tolstoy's denouncement of capital punishment, I Cannot Be Silent; Bertrand Russell's Civil Disobedience and the Threat of Nuclear Warfare; and Love, Law, and Civil Disobedience and Letter from Birmingham City Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr. Other contributors include William Lloyd Garrison, Albert Einstein, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Editor Bob Blaisdell provides an informative Introduction. |