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Profiles in courage / John F. Kennedy ; special foreword by Robert F. Kennedy.

By: Publication details: New York, Harper & Row ©1964.Edition: Memorial edDescription: 287 pages portrait 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 923.273
  • 973/.099 B
LOC classification:
  • E176 .K4 1964
NLM classification:
  • E176
Contents:
Foreword to the Memorial edition / by Robert F. Kennedy -- Preface -- 1. Courage and politics -- pt. 1. -- The time and the place -- 2. John Quincy Adams : "The magistrate is the servant not ... of the people, but of his God." -- pt. 2. -- The time and the place -- 3. Daniel Webster : " ... not as a Massachusetts man ... but as an American ..." -- 4. Thomas Hart Benton : "I despise the bubble popularity ..." -- 5. Sam Houston : " ... I can forget that I am called a traitor." -- pt. 3. -- The time and the place -- 6. Edmund G. Ross : "I ... looked down into my open grave." -- 7. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar : "Today I must be true or false ..." -- pt. 4. -- The time and the place -- 8. George Norris : "I have come home to tell you the truth." -- 9. Robert A. Taft : " ... liberty of the individual to think his own thoughts ..." -- 10. Other men of political courage : " ... consolation for ... the contempt of mankind." -- 11. The meaning of courage -- Bibliography -- Index.
Awards:
  • Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 1957.
Summary: About American statesman including John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Robert Taft and Sam Houston, who had the courage to make difficult and dramatic moral decisions.
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Originally published: 1955.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281) and index.

Foreword to the Memorial edition / by Robert F. Kennedy -- Preface -- 1. Courage and politics -- pt. 1. -- The time and the place -- 2. John Quincy Adams : "The magistrate is the servant not ... of the people, but of his God." -- pt. 2. -- The time and the place -- 3. Daniel Webster : " ... not as a Massachusetts man ... but as an American ..." -- 4. Thomas Hart Benton : "I despise the bubble popularity ..." -- 5. Sam Houston : " ... I can forget that I am called a traitor." -- pt. 3. -- The time and the place -- 6. Edmund G. Ross : "I ... looked down into my open grave." -- 7. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar : "Today I must be true or false ..." -- pt. 4. -- The time and the place -- 8. George Norris : "I have come home to tell you the truth." -- 9. Robert A. Taft : " ... liberty of the individual to think his own thoughts ..." -- 10. Other men of political courage : " ... consolation for ... the contempt of mankind." -- 11. The meaning of courage -- Bibliography -- Index.

About American statesman including John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Robert Taft and Sam Houston, who had the courage to make difficult and dramatic moral decisions.

Accelerated Reader Middle Grade 8.4 12.0 West Rusk Jr. High.

Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 1957.

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