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Profiles in courage
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- ISBN: 9780060530624
- ISBN: 0060530626
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Physical Description:
xxii, 245 pages ; 22 cm
print - Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, 2003.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: Harper & Brothers, 1956. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index. |
| Target Audience Note: | 1410L Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 11.4 13 16720. |
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| Subject: | United States Politics and government Courage United States Legislators United States Biography United States. Congress. Senate Biography |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Poplar Bluff - Main Library | 973.099 KENNEDY (Text) | 38420101293609 | NON-FICTION | Available | - |
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Table of Contents
Profiles in Courage
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction Caroline Kennedy | p. ix | |
| Foreword Robert F. Kennedy | p. xv | |
| Preface | p. xxi | |
| I. | Courage and Politics | p. 1 |
| Part 1 | The Time and the Place | p. 23 |
| II. | John Quincy Adams "The magistrate is the servant not ... of the people, but of his God." | p. 29 |
| Part 2 | The Time and the Place | p. 51 |
| III. | Daniel Webster "... not as a Massachusetts man ... but as an American ..." | p. 57 |
| IV. | Thomas Hart Benton "I despise the bubble popularity ..." | p. 75 |
| V. | Sam Houston "... I can forget that I am called a traitor." | p. 93 |
| Part 3 | The Time and the Place | p. 111 |
| VI. | Edmund G. Ross "I ... looked down into my open grave." | p. 115 |
| VII. | Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar "Today I must be true or false ..." | p. 139 |
| Part 4 | The Time and the Place | p. 165 |
| VIII. | George Norris "I have come home to tell you the truth." | p. 170 |
| IX. | Robert A. Taft "... liberty of the individual to think his own thoughts ..." | p. 193 |
| X. | Other Men of Political Courage "... consolation ... for the contempt of mankind." | p. 206 |
| XI. | The Meaning of Courage | p. 217 |
| Bibliography | p. 227 | |
| Index | p. 239 |
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