As Resisting Illegitimate Authority reveals, authoritarians attempt to marginalise anti-authoritarians, who are scorned, shunned, financially punished, psychopathologised, criminalised, and even assassinated. Profiling a diverse group of anti-authoritarians - including Thomas Paine, Ralph Nader, Malcolm X, and Lenny Bruce - in order to glean useful lessons from their lives, Resisting Illegitimate Authority is the first self-help manual for anti-authoritarians. Resisting Illegitimate Authority is about bigotry, but not bigotry directed at race, religion, gender, or sexual preference. It is about bigotry directed at rebellious personalities and temperaments.