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prison reform
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- ISBN 9780786478033
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 Mar 2015
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Many of the world's most important historical figures were imprisoned for holding unpopular or unorthodox beliefs. They used their time behind bars to write books that shaped the course of history. This collection of new essays offers a wide-ranging examination of influential works written--in whole or in part--while their authors were in prison or exile. Each chapter explores a different text and contains a brief biography and summary of the circumstances surrounding the author's imprisonment, along with a critical examination of the writing and its legacy. Authors covered include Plato, Thomas Paine, Gandhi, Thoreau, Bertrand Russell, Hitler and Martin Luther King, Jr.
J. Ward Regan, Ph.D., has taught history and philosophy at New York University’s Liberal Studies program since 1993, and has lectured widely on American and European history through the New York Council for the Humanities. He lives in Brooklyn.
