What Evil Means to Us: U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918-1941

by C. Fred Alford

Book Overview

C. Fred Alford interviewed working people, prisoners, and college students in order to discover how people experience evil--in themselves, in others, and in the world. What people meant by evil, he found, was a profound, inchoate feeling of dread so overwhelming that they tried to inflict it on others to be rid of it themselves. A leather-jacketed emergency medical technician, for example, one of the many young people for whom vampires are oddly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801434300
• ISBN13: 9780801434303
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher