On Civil Disobedience

"Two seminal, opposing essays by Henry David Thoreau and Hannah Arendt on civil disobedience are brought together for the first time in a standalone paperback volume. More than ever, Americans are hungry for understanding of the duties of citizens and the proper limits of civil resistance to government. Introduction by political theorist and Arendtian scholar Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities"--