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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
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Jerome Lawrence
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1982-12 - Publisher: Turtleback Books

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After refusing to pay taxes to the American government, which was engaged in what he saw as an unjust war, Henry David Thoreau is thrown in prison.
Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
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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
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Henry David Thoreau refuses to pay taxes and protests the Mexican War. A drama relevant as tomorrow's headlines.