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New York: Basic Books, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Long couched only in theological terms, and popularly personified by the despots of history, the nature of evil has resisted explanation. In this singular survey of this mysterious but all too often palpable force, veteran Time magazine writer Lance Morrow examines the unmistakable ways evil influences our global culture-and how that global culture in turn has magnified evil's menace. Its dramatic reemergence in the national consciousness-against a backdrop of high-tech, sensationalized violence-makes his updated understanding both timely and absolutely necessary.Drawing on examples both obscure and splashed across the headlines, Morrow seeks to understand how evil works, and what purpose, if any, it serves. From the heartrending to the harrowing, from quiet lies to catastrophic acts, his stories are drawn from over thirty years of experience as a revered journalist and essayist. The result is a brilliant synthesis of a…
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GEORGE W. BUSH and his critics use the word "evil" in ways that suggest both sides are fighting the last war, talking about a world that no longer exists; or rather, both sides fail to see what evil has become in the world that exists now.
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- Title Evil: An Investigation
- Author Lance Morrow
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Basic Books, New York
- Date August 2003
- ISBN 9780465047543 / 0465047548
- Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.76 x 5.85 x 1.02 in (22.25 x 14.86 x 2.59 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Good and evil
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003009526
- Dewey Decimal Code 170
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New York: Basic Books, 2003. First printing. Hardcover. Very good condition/good. 276pp. 22 cm. Signed by the author for John Contents: The globalization of evil -- Humors cousin -- A current through the world -- Why do they do it? -- The hermits tale -- A catastrophic education -- The axis of wrong -- Sarajevo : lex talionis -- The riflemans dilemma -- Jean Valjean at Wendys -- Visigoths in the brain -- The axe in space -- What have children to do with it? -- The triumph of Goneril and Regan -- Tu quoque -- The rattlesnake in the mailbox -- Permissible evil -- Taking responsibility for the regime -- Office malignities -- The consolations of literature -- Us and them -- The faces secrets -- Club med for monsters -- Sade, Cobain, and the pleasures of evil -- Gourmets and monkey brains -- The limits of silence -- The argument from design -- It is always a story -- The lessons of Mein Kampf -- What Nachtwey sees -- The quest for purity -- The foxes lose heart -- Czerniakows choice -- Hope.
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