
Rutger is a historian and bestselling author who has spent years studying what he calls the "moral pioneers" of the past: the abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders who reshaped our world. His new book, Moral Ambition, and the organization he's built around it, draws on their firsthand accounts to ask two questions at once: what made those people willing to risk everything, and why do so many talented people today end up living smaller lives than they're capable of?
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