"A fascinating study in the better angels of our nature."--George Packer, The New Yorker A New York Times Book Review Editors\' Choice History has produced many specimens of the banality of evil, but what about its flip side, what impels Ordinary People to defy the sway of authority and convention? Through these dramatic stories of unlikely resisters, Eyal Press\' Beautiful Souls shows that the boldest acts of dissent are often carried out not only. "A fascinating study in the better angels of our nature."--George Packer, The New Yorker A New York Times Book Review Editors\' Choice History has produced many specimens of the banality of evil, but what about its flip side, what impels Ordinary People to defy the sway of authority and convention? Through these dramatic stories of unlikely resisters, Eyal Press\' Beautiful Souls shows that the boldest acts of dissent are often carried out not only
