{"product_id":"the-peoples-benefactor","title":"The People's Benefactor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat happens when the wish to save the world becomes the power to change other people's lives?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The People's Benefactor, Rudolf Haas explores the uneasy meeting of high ideals and public power. At the center is the hope that suffering can be ended. But helping many people requires more than conviction. It calls for resources, allies and decisions whose effects reach beyond the person making them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmbition, loyalty and doubt press against the promise of a good cause. The question is not simply whether someone wants to help, but what means that person will accept. As humanity becomes a cause to serve, individual people—and their own wishes—risk slipping out of view.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe pull of hope\u003c\/strong\u003e – Explore the belief that suffering can end, and the commitment such a belief demands.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIdeals under pressure\u003c\/strong\u003e – Consider what happens when a worthy aim meets the hard choices of public life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePeople behind the cause\u003c\/strong\u003e – Look beyond the promise of helping humanity to the individuals that promise can overlook.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLoyalty beside doubt\u003c\/strong\u003e – Spend time with questions of conscience that good intentions alone cannot settle.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA cost others share\u003c\/strong\u003e – Reflect on how a grand design can place burdens on more than its champion.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who enjoy reflective novels about politics, conscience and the gap between ideals and action, rather than a fast plot with little room for moral questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page now and explore the uneasy distance between wanting to help and doing good.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534765064540,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/14616_en_ebook-front_c28.jpg?v=1792175191","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/products\/the-peoples-benefactor","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}