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The Just and the Unjust is a novel by James Gould Cozzens published in 1942. Set in "Childerstown," a fictional rural town of 4000 persons, the novel is a courtroom drama of a murder trial that begins June 14, 1939, [1] and takes three days.
Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations is a 1977 book by the philosopher Michael Walzer. Published by Basic Books, it is still in print, now as part of the Basic Books Classics Series. A second edition was published in 1992, a third edition in 2000, a fourth edition in 2006, and a fifth edition in 2015.
Michael Laban Walzer [a] (born March 3, 1935) is an American political theorist and public intellectual.A professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, he is editor emeritus of the left-wing magazine Dissent, which he has been affiliated with since his years as an undergraduate at Brandeis University, an advisory editor of the Jewish journal Fathom, and ...
After a short description of how quickly he read through the earlier books in the series after reading Persuader, Dale Jones of The Gazette simply stated "You might say I liked it". [5] The Crime Writers' Association nominated the book for the 2003 Steel Dagger Award for best thriller novel first published in the UK. [6]
[5] Beryl Bainbridge, Richard Adams, Ronald Harwood, and John Bayley also spoke positively of the work, while philosopher Roger Scruton described it as a "brilliant summary of story-telling". [6] Others have dismissed the book on grounds that Booker is too rigid in fitting works of art to the plot types above.
1956: The Adventures of Ben Gunn (a companion novel to Stevenson's Treasure Island telling of events which occurred before that book begins) 1958: The Dreaming Suburb (Avenue series) 1958: The Avenue Goes to War (Avenue series) 1960: There was a Fair Maid Dwelling (combined with The Unjust Skies to form Diana, 1979)
Michael Walzer, in Just and Unjust Wars (1977), examines the ethics of war and resistance, including the moral considerations surrounding the assassination of tyrants. Walzer discusses tyrannicide within the broader context of just war theory, arguing that in some cases, killing a tyrant may be necessary to protect innocent lives and restore ...
He happens to think of Evan, and wonders why he hasn't heard about Evan's book being published. Searching online, he learns that Evan died of a drug overdose just a few months after they last spoke, presumably leaving the book unfinished. Three years later, Bonner's second novel, Crib, based on Evan's outline, has sold over two million copies.