The Do-Gooders That Are Almost Too Good

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 2, 2015

In Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help, New Yorker staff writer Larissa MacFarquhar presents a series of profiles on people who face moral and ethical quandaries by being altruistic to a fault. These do-gooders devote themselves so completely to helping others that they often forget to take care of their own well being. 

EVENT: On Wednesday, October 7, Larissa MacFarquhar will be in conversation with the New Yorker's David Grann at Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton St. Brooklyn, NY 11217 at 7:30 P.M.

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