Profiles in courage
Sketches of several famous Americans who took unpopular stands during their lives.
Main Author: | Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963. |
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Other Authors: | Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971. |
Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
Harper,
[1961]
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Physical Description: |
xxiii, 266 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 22 cm. |
Edition: | Inaugural ed. |
Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Courage and politics
- "The magistrate is the servant not... of the people but of his God" : John Quincy Adams
- "... not as a Massachusetts man but as an American..." : Daniel Webster
- "I despise the bubble popularity..." : Thomas Hart Benton
- "... I can forget that I am called a traitor" : Sam Houston
- "I looked down into my open grave..." : Edmund G. Ross
- "Today I must be true or false..." : Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
- "I have come home to tell you the truth" : George Norris
- "Liberty of the individual to think his own thoughts" : Robert A. Taft
- "... consolation for the contempt of mankind" : additional men of courage
- The meaning of courage.