Profiles in Braveness

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 basic resounds with timeless classes on probably the most cherished of virtues—braveness and patriotism—and stays a shifting, highly effective, and related testomony to the indomitable American spirit

Throughout 1954-55, Kennedy, then a junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, profiled eight American patriots, primarily United States Senators, who at essential moments in our nation’s historical past, revealed a particular kind of greatness: males who disregarded dreadful penalties to their private and non-private lives to try this one factor which appeared proper in itself. They have been males of assorted political and regional allegiances—their one overriding loyalty was to the USA.

Braveness comparable to these males shared, Kennedy makes clear, is central to all morality—a person does what he should regardless of private penalties—and these thrilling tales counsel that, with out within the least disparaging the braveness with which males die, we should always not overlook the true greatness adorning these acts of braveness with which males should dwell.

As Robert F. Kennedy writes within the foreword, Profiles in Braveness “isn’t just tales of the previous however a e book of hope and confidence for the longer term. What occurs to the nation, to the world, is dependent upon what we do with what others have left us.”