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The capacity to comply with abusive authority is humanity’s "fatal flaw". Fortunately, within the human family there are anti-authoritarians -- people comfortable questioning the legitimacy of authority and resisting its illegitimate forms. However, as Resisting Illegitimate Authority reveals, these rebels are regularly scorned, shunned, financially punished, psychopathologized, criminalized, and even assassinated. Profiling a diverse group of U.S. anti-authoritarians -- from Thomas Paine to Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X, Lenny Bruce, and Noam Chomsky -- in order to glean useful lessons from…