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The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform - Thoreau, Henry David, and Glick, Wendell (Editor), and Zinn, Howard (Introduction by)
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These thirteen selections from the polemical writings of Henry D. Thoreau represent every stage in his twenty-two years of active writing. This edition, introduced by writer and historian Howard Zinn, is a microcosm of Thoreau's literary career. It allows the reader to achieve a full sense of Thoreau's evolution as a writer and thinker. Most famous of these essays is "Resistance to Civil Government," better known as "Civil Disobedience." Still a standard text in American high schools, it has long inspired nonviolent protest ...

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The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform 2004, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691118765

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