RaveLos Angeles Review of BooksA book about moral self-inventory, written by someone honest enough to admit that his own might come up short ... The author is explicit that dissidence is not a political stance, not a career, and not a personality type. It is what happens when the distance between what you believe and how you act becomes intolerable ... Beckerman writes in a register that oscillates between the elevated and the colloquial, with enough control that the oscillations feel purposeful ... What anchors Beckerman’s book, and ultimately what stays with the reader, is its emotional honesty ... He does not flinch from his own dilemmas ... This is writing that trusts the reader to be in the same difficulty. It earns that trust.
