Ethics & Other Liabilities: Trying to Live Right in an Amoral World

By Harry Stein

Book Overview

For two years in the pages of Esquire magazine, with no more professional qualifications than a decent consience, Harry Stein examined the battle between right and wrong in the most intimate terms.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312265573
• ISBN13: 9780312265571
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

How are YOU holding up?

Some 15-20 years after being written, many of these essays hold up quite well, but I think it would be interesting to get Mr. Stein's update on them. (Perhaps that was the original pitch for _How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy_.) Regardless of where you sit on the social/cultural/political spectrum, there are fundamental issues of character that ultimately must be held dear. Rather than use these issues as a bully pulpit for his own agenda, Mr. Stein writes about them with care, insight, and wit, and in so doing, gives us another fundamental issue about which we can agree: Harry Stein is a fine writer.

Entertaining and thoughtful collection of essays

As the title imples, Harry Stein looks at a number of life's situations where doing the right thing isn't always the easy thing (or the obvious thing, for that matter.) Originally published as a series of essays in Esquire magazine, this book is an entertaining and thoughtful read.