Eyal Press Beautiful Souls Pdf File
Posted : admin On 17.08.2019
The Paperback of the Beautiful Souls: The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times by Eyal Press at Barnes & Noble. Author of Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times and Absolute Convictions. Eyal Press is also a 2011 Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation and a contributing writer at The Nation, New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, Mother Jones, The Columbia Journalism Review and numerous other publications. Beautiful Souls by Eyal Press Book Resume: On the Swiss border with Austria in 1938, a police captain refuses to enforce a law barring Jewish refugees from entering his country. In the Balkans half a century later, a Serb from the war-blasted city of Vukovar defies his superiors in order to save the lives of Croats.
Summary
In July, 1846, reclusive writer and amateur botanist Henry David Thoreau was arrested in Concord, Massachusetts, for failure to pay the poll tax for the past several years. Thoreau was released the next day after his aunt paid bail. Thoreau later explained to an audience at the Concord Lyceum that he felt it was just not to pay a tax to a country that tolerated slavery and had engaged in war with Mexico. Press notes that Thoreau, while he refused to pay a poll tax because of slavery, did not say in his speech that slavery must be ended. This is later noted by writer Hannah Arendt, who used the event to distinguish between a “good man” and a “good citizen,” wherein a good man is preoccupied with his own moral purity, and a good citizen will become involved in the world...
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