(Hardback)

Flannery OConnors fiction continues to haunt American readers, in part because of its uncanny ability to remind us who we are and what we need. This book reveals the extent to which OConnor was a serious reader of the history of political philosophy and why OConnor feared that the habit to govern by tenderness would lead to terror.

(Paperback)

Flannery OConnors fiction continues to haunt American readers, in part because of its uncanny ability to remind us who we are and what we need. This book reveals the extent to which OConnor was a serious reader of the history of political philosophy and why OConnor feared that the habit to govern by tenderness would lead to terror.