Profiles in Courage

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The Pulitzer Prize successful vintage via President John F. Kennedy, with an Creation via Caroline Kennedy and a foreword via Robert F. Kennedy.

Written in 1955 via the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage serves as a clarion name to each American.

In this guide Kennedy selected 8 of his ancient colleagues to profile for his or her acts of remarkable integrity within the face of overwhelming competition. Those heroes, coming from other junctures in our country’s historical past, come with John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, and Robert A. Taft.

Now, a part-century later, the guide is still a transferring, robust, and related testomony to the indomitable nationwide spirit and an unheard of party of that almost all noble of human virtues. It resounds with undying classes at the so much beloved of virtues and is an impressive reminder of the energy of the human spirit. Profiles in Courage is as Robert Kennedy states within the foreword: “now not simply tales of the earlier however a guide of desire and trust for the long run. What occurs to the rustic, to the arena, depends upon what we do with what others have left us.”

Along with antique pictures and an in depth creator biography, this guide options Kennedy’s correspondence in regards to the writing venture, latest opinions, a letter from Ernest Hemingway, and rousing speeches from recipients of the Profile in Braveness Award.  Creation via John F. Kennedy’s daughter Caroline Kennedy, ahead via John F. Kennedy’s brother Robert F. Kennedy.

Pink amd white hardcover, 5×10 inches 245 pages
Jacket with scene on again of JFK and lettering on entrance in Pink, white, blue