Search results
Profiles in Courage is a 1956 volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States senators. The book profiles senators who defied the opinions of their party and constituents to do what they felt was right and suffered severe criticism and losses in popularity as a result.
Apr 11, 2006 · THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CLASSIC OF POLITICAL INTEGRITY. With a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy and introduction by Caroline Kennedy. John F. Kennedy’s enduring classic resounds with timeless lessons on the most cherished of virtues—courage and patriotism—and remains a moving, powerful, and relevant testament to the indomitable American ...
Profiles in Courage, which Kennedy dedicated to his wife Jacqueline Kennedy, received the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1957. Defining Political Courage In the preface to Profiles in Courage , Senator Kennedy discusses the “problems of political courage in the face of constituent pressures, and the light shed on those problems by the lives ...
Profiles in Courage is a focused review of eight Senators in US history, chronicling instances where that man defied the pressures of various forces - his party, his state legislature, his President, but above all his constituents the American people - in a moment of national crisis, enduring insults from all sides in the conviction that the ...
Apr 11, 2006 · Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage served as a clarion call to every American. The inspiring true accounts of...
The Pulitzer Prize winning classic by President John F. Kennedy, with an introduction by Caroline Kennedy and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy. Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the...
Profiles in Courage. John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Harper & Row, 1991 - Courage - 282 pages. "This is a book about the most admirable of human virtues--courage. 'Grace under pressure,' Ernest...
