INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: AUTHORITARIANS AND ANTI-AUTHORITARIANS
1. Authorities—and My Path to Resisting Illegitimate Authority
2. The Compliant, the Noncompliant, and the Anti-Authoritarian
Defining Terms
The Percentage of Americans Who Resist Illegitimate Authority
The Authoritarian and Anti-Authoritarian “Personality” and Left-Right Politics
PART TWO: THE ASSAULT ON U.S. ANTI-AUTHORITARIANS
3. Great Contributions Do Not Prevent Marginalization
Thomas Paine, Ralph Nader, and Malcolm X
4. Criminalization of Anti-Authoritarians
Emma Goldman, Eugene Debs, and Edward Snowden
5.Genocide of an Anti-Authoritarian People: Native Americans
6. Psychiatric Assault and Marginalization: Not Just Frances Farmer
7. Schooling’s Assault on Young Anti-Authoritarians
PART THREE: TRAGEDY OR TRIUMPH
8. Lessons from Anti-Authoritarians Who Have Hurt Themselves, Others, or the Cause
Self-Destructive Anti-Authoritarians: Phil Ochs, Lenny Bruce, and Ida Lupino
Violent Anti-Authoritarians: Alexander Berkman, Leon Czolgosz, and Ted Kaczynski
9. Political, Spiritual, Philosophical, and Psychological Lenses for Anti-Authoritarians
Anarchism
Buddhism
The God of Spinoza and Einstein
The Enneagram
10. Lessons from Anti-Authoritarians Who’ve Helped Themselves, Others, and the Cause
Counterculture Beacons: Henry David Thoreau and Scott Nearing
Two Strike Hitters: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Helen Keller
Modern Models: Jane Jacobs, Noam Chomsky, and George Carlin
11. We Don’t Need No Badges
Depression
Relationships
Mutual Aid
Parenting
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
INDEX