Beautiful Souls: The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times

Press, Eyal

ISBN 10: 1250024080 / ISBN 13: 9781250024084

Published by Picador, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beautiful Souls: The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
• Publisher: Picador
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250024080
• ISBN 13: 9781250024084
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 6 ounces

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Synopsis

"A fascinating study in the better angels of our nature."―George Packer, The New Yorker

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

History has produced many specimens of the banality of evil, but what about its flip side, what impels ordinary people to defy the sway of authority and convention? Through these dramatic stories of unlikely resisters, Eyal Press' Beautiful Souls shows that the boldest acts of dissent are often carried out not only by radicals seeking to overthrow the system but also by true believers who cling with unusual fierceness to their convictions. Drawing on groundbreaking research by moral psychologists and neuroscientists, this deeply reported work of narrative journalism examines the choices and dilemmas we all face when our principles collide with the loyalties we harbor and the duties we are expected to fulfill.

About the Author

Eyal Press is an author and a journalist based in New York. The recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, an Andrew Carnegie fellowship, a Cullman Center fellowship at the New York Public Library, and a Puffin Foundation fellowship at Type Media Center, he is a contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times, and numerous other publications. He is the author of Beautiful Souls and Absolute Convictions.