Eyal Press
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work"-the work that society considers essential but morally compromised"--
Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the "kill floors" of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United States' most violent and abusive prisons. Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Fifty years after Hannah Arendt examined the dynamics of conformity in her seminal account of the Eichmann trial, "Beautiful Souls" explores the flipside of the banality of evil, mapping out what impels ordinary people to defy the sway of authority and convention.
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