Loyalty
Subtitle: the vexing virtue
By: Eric Felten
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781439176863; 9781439176887
Subjects: Loyalty
Other titles: Vexing virtue
Description: Presents an anecdotal assessment of loyalty that canvasses examples from the Bible, literature and other sources to evaluate the role of loyalty in life and how loyalty-based choices reflect priorities and contradictions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The power of loyalty; title: Loyalties at loggerheads; title: The ever ready accomplices; title: For better or for worse; title: The thousandth man; title: Bonding and branding; title: Tell me it smells like roses; title: Reasons for treason; title: The lifeboat ethic.