Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times (Hardcover) by Eyal Press

from Sullywriter

A fascinating, provocative book that seeks to explain the behavior of "righteous" individuals--those who, when all those around them do evil or are silently complicit in it, are not--people who break ranks, act alone, and risk everything including their lives in order to do the moral thing.

from OccassionalRead

There are a fair number of books about bad people, numerous biographies about Hitler and their ilk and how it is they became the embodiment of evil. But Eyal Press was interested in a more overlooked subject, why some people resist the worst inclinations of their neighbors, sometimes their entire...

from lposton

Very timely and discussion-worthy book.

from TTAISI-Editor

This is a wonderful book, a must read for anyone interested in how and why individuals in society decide to resist that which they believe to be wrong or evil. Philosophical but accessible, with examples from history as well as the present day, Press forces us to ask ourselves how "we avoid makin...

from TTAISI-Editor

This is a wonderful book, a must read for anyone interested in how and why individuals in society decide to resist that which they believe to be wrong or evil. Philosophical but accessible, with examples from history as well as the present day, Press forces us to ask ourselves how "we avoid makin...