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Leonard W. Doob, Pursuing Perfection: People, Groups, and Society. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999, vii + 211 pp., $59.95 (hard cover).

Leonard Doob has had an illustrious career in attempting to apply the finding of social science to human conflict and global ecology. In this, his last book, he offers a running conversation on living a good life and dealing with existential issues. Professor Doob offers us a valuable glimpse into a perspective on living that has benefitted from an amazing array of his life experiences. His contemporaries or mentors included ...

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