Eli Schuster's View:
Synopsis: (Combination of Henry David Thoreau's 1849 essay "Resistance to Civil Government", and an excerpt from Walden on the importance of reading and books.) Basically, Thoreau exhorts his fellow citizens to grow some balls and refuse to accept bullshit from their government, even it if was popularly elected.
What I Learned: Thoreau spent a night in the slammer with a barn-burner for refusing to pay the local poll tax.
Memorable Line: "I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pittied it."
You Might Like This Book If: You're seriously pissed off about something the government is doing, and you really want to protest, but... it's your day off and you need a reason or two to get off the couch and leave your game of Grand Theft Auto.
Good Question: "Why does [the state] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?"
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