Description: The creator of the famous "Obedience Experiments," and originator of the "six degrees of separation" concept, Stanley Milgram was one of the most innovative scientists of modern times. Blass captures the colorful personality and pioneering work of a social psychologist who profoundly altered the way society thinks about human nature.

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Reviews: "Blass's intimate biography of Stanley Milgram is a tour de force. We come to understand the reasoning behind his classic obedience research as well as many of his other vital contributions. And we get to know the man behind the legend in a more personal and informed way. This is a biography destined to become a classic reading on psychology and its contributions to probing the nature of the social animal." --Philip G. Zimbardo, author of Shyness, and former president, American Psychological Association

"A wonderful, entertaining and demystifying portrait of the father of six degrees and small worlds. Milgram, without doubt the most influential social psychologist of the last century, fully deserves this great interpretive biography." --Albert-László Barabási, author of Linked, and Emil T. Hofman Professor of Physics, University of Notre Dame

"With literary flair reminiscent of Milgram himself, Blass marries scholarship and journalism in his intimate portrayal of the...

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