Scapegoat: A History of Blaming Other People

A "brief and vital account" of humanity's long history of playing the blame game, from Adam and Eve to modern politics—"a relevant and timely subject" (The Daily Telegraph).

We may have come a long way from the days when a goat was symbolically saddled with all the iniquities of the children of Israel and driven into the wilderness, but has our desperate need to absolve ourselves by pinning the blame on someone else really changed all that much?

Charlie Campbell highlights the plight o...