Confronting evil : assessing the worst of the worst / Bill O'Reilly and Josh Hammer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Reilly, Bill, author.

Hammer, Josh, author.

Contributor:

St. Martin's Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Good and evil--History.

Good and evil.

Dictators--History.

Dictators.

Good and evil--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Political ethics.

State crimes.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2025

Summary:

"The concept of evil is universal, ancient, and ever present today. The biblical book of Genesis clearly defines it when Cain kills his brother Abel out of jealousy. As long as human beings have walked, evil has been close by. This book will recount the deeds of the worst people in history: Genghis Khan. Caligula. Henry VIII. The collective evil of the slave traders. Stalin. Hitler. Mao. The Ayatollah Khomeini. Putin. The Mexican drug cartels. Their stories starkly display how some of the worst events in history unfolded. Confronting Evil explains the struggle between good and evil, a choice every person in the Judeo-Christian tradition is compelled to make. But many defer. We avoid the decision. We look away. It's easier. Prepare yourself to hear the consequences of that inaction. As John Stuart Mill said in his inaugural address to the University of St. Andrews in 1867: "Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing." -- Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Caligula

Genghis Khan

King Henry VIII

The slavers off the coast of New Orleans, Louisiana

Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Ku Klux Klan

The Robber Barons

Joseph Stalin

Adolf Hitler

Mao Zedong

Ayatollah Khomeini

Vladimir Putin

The drug cartels.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic and digital references, and index.

ISBN:

9781250374042

1250374049

OCLC:

1534726103