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. Now collected in book form, Stein's provocative essays eloquently address many of the real, if unspoken, issues of everyday life, providing warm, personal insights that offer a rich reward beyond good and evil.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312265441
• ISBN13: 9780312265441
• Release Date: May 1983
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"

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.