Bourdeau, Jean Ovide

Jean Ovide Bourdeau is a self-described average Canadian, who, close to retirement from what he calls an enjoyable but most ordinary career in human resources, decided to try to understand an issue that had bothered him all of his life: gratuitous and self-righteous violence. More specifically he wished to comprehend the rationalization of that violence in the mind of perpetrators, beginning with the routine kind heaped on battered women and exploited children nearly everywhere on earth-among others.

This eventually led him to identify what he now calls an historical legacy of terror and m...