Essays on Civil Disobedience
(Paperback, First Edition, First ed.)
Publishing Details
Essays on Civil Disobedience
By (Author) Bob Blaisdell
By (author) Konstantin Kolenda
Dover Publications Inc.
Dover Publications Inc.
30th April 2016
30th April 2016
First Edition, First ed.
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
303.61
Physical Properties
Paperback
256
Width 124mm, Height 203mm, Spine 11mm
151g
Description
Inexpensive but substantial, this anthology begins with Thoreau's great 19th-century essay and concludes in the present day. Selections include Tolstoy's "I Cannot Be Silent," Bertrand Russell's "Civil Disobedience and the Threat of Nuclear Warfare," and speeches and writings by Gandhi, Emma Goldman, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Dalai Lama, Andrei Sakharov, and many others.
Author Bio
Bob Blaisdell is Professor of English at the City University of New York's Kingsborough Community College and the editor of more than 20 Dover literature and poetry collections. His most recent Dover books include Civil War Letters: From Home, Camp and Battlefield; Great Speeches by Mark Twain; Essays on Teaching; and Humorous American Short Stories.
