Profiles in Courage: Memorial Edition

287, [1] pp. 8vo. Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy. Memorial edition released after Kennedy's assassination. The original edition won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1957. "In 1954-55, Senator John Kennedy's active role in the affairs of the nation was interrupted for the better part of a year by his convalescence from an operation to correct a disability incurred as skipper of a World War II torpedo boat. The Senator used his 'idle' hours to great advantage; he rediscovered, and did intensive research into, the courage and patriotism of a handful of Americans who at crucial moments in history had revealed a special sort of greatness: me who disregarded dreadful consequences to their public and private lives to do that one thing which seemed right in itself." CONTENTS: Foreword to the Memorial Edition by Robert F. Kennedy; Preface; Courage and Politics; The Time and the Place; John Quincy Adams; The Time and the Place Daniel Webster; Sam Houston; The Time and Place; Edmund G. Ross; Lucius Wuintus Cincinnatus Lamar; The Time and Place George Norris; Robert A. Taft; Other Men of Political Courage; The Meaning of Courage; Bibliography; Index.