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The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Language: en
Pages: 117
Authors: Jerome Lawrence
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-07-10 - Publisher: Macmillan

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A play dramatizing the philosopher, Henry David Thoreau, and his stand concerning civil disobedience. He refused to pay taxes owing to his disapproval of the Me
Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Jerome Lawrence
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-07 - Publisher: Turtleback Books

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A dramatic presentation of Thoreau's famous act of civil disobedience in protest of the U.S. government's involvement in the Mexican War
Civil Disobedience
Language: en
Pages: 41
Authors: Henry David Thoreau
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-01 - Publisher: The Floating Press

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Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience in 1849. It argues the superiority of the individual conscience over acquiescence to government. Thoreau was inspired to write
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Language: en
Pages: 108
Authors: Jerome Lawrence
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1972 - Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

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"This drama opens with Thoreau in jail for refusing to pay taxes to a government conducting a war of aggression in Mexico, at midpoint shows Emerson visiting hi
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Language: en
Pages: 78
Authors: Henry Thoreau
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-08-25 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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