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OverviewInexpensive 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bob Blaisdell , Konstantin KolendaPublisher: Dover Publications Inc. Imprint: Dover Publications Inc. Edition: First Edition, First ed. Dimensions: Width: 12.40cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.151kg ISBN: 9780486793818ISBN 10: 0486793818 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 30 April 2016 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationBob 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |