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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Inexpensive but substantial anthology begins with Thoreau's 19th-century essay and concludes in the present day. Contributors include Tolstoy, Bertrand Russell, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, others.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Inexpensive but substantial, this anthology ranges from Henry David Thoreau's great nineteenth-century polemics Civil Disobedience and Slavery in Massachusetts to more recent writings by Aung San Suu Kyi as well as Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of the subversive Russian rock group Pussy Riot.<br>Additional selections include Leo Tolstoy's denouncement of capital punishment, I Cannot Be Silent; Bertrand Russell's Civil Disobedience and the Threat of Nuclear Warfare; and Love, Law, and Civil Disobedience and Letter from Birmingham City Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr. Other contributors include William Lloyd Garrison, Albert Einstein, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Editor Bob Blaisdell provides an informative Introduction.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Bob Blaisdell is Professor of English at the City University of New York's Kingsborough Community College and the editor of more than 20 Dover literature and poetry collections. His most recent Dover books include <i>Civil War Letters: From Home, Camp and Battlefield; Great Speeches by Mark Twain; Essays on Teaching;</i> and <i>Humorous American Short Stories.</i>

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