The Curse of the Self
Subtitle: Self-Awareness, Egotism, and the Quality of Human Life
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: July 1, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780195172423
First sentence: When 24-year-old John Scopes decided to challenge Tennessee's new law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in public schools, he could not have anticipated that he would be cast into the national spotlight during the hot, dry summer of 1925.