The Curse of the Self
Subtitle: Self-Awareness, Egotism, and the Quality of Human Life
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: December 11, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780195325447
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.