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Article: Gentleman Rebel: The Memoirs of H. Stuart Hughes.
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- The Nation
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- March 18, 1991
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GENTLEMAN REBEL: The Memoirs of H. Stuart Hughes. Ticknor and Fields. 326 pp. $24.95.
What do Michel Tournier, Pope John Paul II, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Jurgen Habermas and Heinrich Boll have in common? They are all, says H. Stuart Hughes in Sophisticated Rebels, his 1988 study of European dissent, practitioners of what he calls "subversion in a minor key." Among their collective characteristics, Hughes lists "nonviolence, ideological skepticism, a recognition of plural loyalties, and an insistence on civic virtue, on the ethical values suffusing activities that often appeared excessively modest and down to earth."
These same characteristics are on ...
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