In the 1960s Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram famously carried out a series of experiments that
forever changed our perceptions of morality and free will. The subjects�or "teachers"�were instructed
to administer electroshocks to a human "learner," with the shocks becoming progressively more powerful
and painful. Controversial but now strongly vindicated by the scientific community, these experiments attempted
to determine to what extent people will obey orders from authority figures regardless of consequences. Obedience
to Authority is Milgram's fascinating and troubling chronicle of his classic study and a vivid and persuasive explanation
of his conclusions.