Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue

by Eric Felten

A witty, provocative, story-filled inquiry into the indispensable virtue of loyalty--a tricky ideal that gets tangled and compromised when loyalties collide (as they inevitably do), but a virtue the author, a prizewinning columnist for The Wall Street Journal , says is as essential as it is impossible. Felten illustrates the push and pull of loyalties-- from the ancient Greeks to Facebook--with stories and scenarios in which conflicting would-be moral...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439176868
• ISBN13: 9781439176863
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 7.6"