00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000004496 20221114023442 0010-0520004496 221114################|##########|#eng## 0-7868-6793-0 eng 973.099 973.099 PRO Profiles In Courage For Our Time Profiles In Courage For Our Time / Edited by Caroline Kennedy 1st Ed New York : Hyperion, 2002 viii, 354 p. ; 22 cm. This is a book about that most admirable of human virtues-- courage. 'Grace under pressure,' Ernest Hemingway defined it. And these are the stories of the pressures experienced by eight United States Senators and the grace with which they endured them." -- John F. Kennedy During 1954-1955, John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. Senator, chose eight of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition. These heroes include John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, and Robert A. Taft. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, Profiles in Courage -- now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new introduction by Caroline Kennedy, as well as Robert Kennedy's foreword written for the memorial edition of the volume in 1964 -- resounds with timeless lessons on the most cherished of virtues and is a powerful reminder of the strength of the human spirit. It is as Robert Kennedy states in the foreword, "not just stories of the past but a hook of hope and confidence for the future. What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us." Legislators --United States --Biography. Courage --United States Northern Ireland --Politics and government 05167/MKRI-P/I-2008 05167/MKRI-P/I-2008