Confronting evil assessing the worst of the worst
(2025)

Nonfiction

Audiobook CD

Call Numbers:
NEW CD/920.02/O'REILLY,B
SR CENTER/CD/920.02/O'REILLY,B

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Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Macmillan Audio, [2025]
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

8 audio discs (10 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
9798228497412 60kn9i, 9781250402691 40kn9i, 1250402697, 9781250402691
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from web page

The concept of evil is universal, ancient, and ever present today. The biblical book of Genesis clearly defines it when Cain kills his brother Abel out of jealousy. As long as human beings have walked, evil has been close by. This book will recount the deeds of the worst people in history: Genghis Khan. Caligula. Henry VIII. The collective evil of the slave traders. Stalin. Hitler. Mao. The Ayatollah Khomeini. Putin. The Mexican drug cartels. Their stories starkly display how some of the worst events in history unfolded. Confronting Evil explains the struggle between good and evil, a choice every person in the Judeo-Christian tradition is compelled to make. But many defer. We avoid the decision. We look away. It's easier.Prepare yourself to hear the consequences of that inaction. As John Stuart Mill said in his inaugural address to the University of St. Andrews in 1867: "Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."

Read by Robert Petkoff

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