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Ethics & Other Liabilities: Trying to Live Right in an Amoral World
by Harry Stein
Product Group: Book
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (1983-05-15)
ISBN: 0312265441
EAN: 9780312265441
Dewy Decimal #: 170
Paperback: 176 pages
SKU: WB202586
Condition: Very Good
Comments: 0312265441 There are no markings in this book. Its cover shows only minor shelf wear with creases on the spine. Your book will be carefully protected for transit in sturdy, weather-resistant packaging. We are prompt, efficient, communicative.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
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.
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Customer Reviews
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Pretentious and Unrewarding
Rating  (1)
Date: 2003-08-14
1 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
In the book the author himself makes the acknowledgement that he is self-righteous. This, at least, is true and useful. There are some very positive aspects of the book. For example, "A convincing case can be made that the entire free enterprise system is based on envy." Such is one nugget of wisdom from the book. However, a majority of it never rises to that level. Instead, we are forced to listen to Harry Stein begrudge his friends and enemies and himself the natural human inclinations that we all experience. In addition, he spends a good deal of time trumpeting his own horn about how he doesn't experience those feelings that we all do. It is obnoxious at best and unbearable at worst. Part of the obnoxiousness of it, really, is the knowledge that he is frequently right. Jealousy and revenge are low and should be avoided. But, his crowing about how he does that already is pointless and irritating. The book suffers from those problems and more. It never really has the inspired knowledge that the back or other reviewers claim. I am truly doubtful that it will change your life. I don't think that anyone reading this book will really change the world. In the end, it is merely an annoyance and doesn't serve any real end. I would be upset that I had this book if I had purchased it. I would be grateful that I had it if I borrowed it. However, it was given to me by a stranger for free, so I am going to return the favor. I will give it to a stranger and cross my fingers. Maybe (I personally doubt it) it will fall into the hands of someone who will find it useful. Don't buy it, don't read it. Mostly, don't bother.
Harkius
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How are YOU holding up?
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-11-07
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
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.
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Entertaining and thoughtful collection of essays
Rating (5)
Date: 1999-06-23
3 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
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.
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