Enemy of the People Ibsen Henrik
Environmentalist, activist, and attorney, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who has worked for decades to bring attention to the contamination of our nation's waterways, contributes a foreword to this Skyhorse…
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Environmentalist, activist, and attorney, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who has worked for decades to bring attention to the contamination of our nation's waterways, contributes a foreword to this Skyhorse edition of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's renowned 1882 play, An Enemy of the People.Regarded as one of the foremost playwrights of the nineteenth century, Ibsen tells the story of the idealist Doctor Thomas Stockmann, the medical officer of a recently opened spa in a small town in southern Norway, who finds that the water is seriously contaminated. He notifies members of the community and initially receives support and thanks for the discovery. Threatened by the possible impact of such a revelation, his brother, the town mayor, conspires with local politicians and the newspaper to suppress the story and pressure Dr. Stockmann to retract his statements. At a public