Civil Disobedience

Originally published in 1849 as "Resistance to Civil Government," Thoreau's classic essay on resistance to the laws and acts of government that he considered unjust was largely ignored until the Twentieth Century when Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and anti-Vietnam War activists applied Thoreau's principles.

Hardcover / Literary Criticism / American / Books of American Wisdom Series

0.3" H x 6.63" L x 4.34" W (0.2 lbs) 36 pages