- Subjects
- Genres
- Biographies
- Published
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New York :
HarperPerennial Modern Classics
2013.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- 1st HarperPerennial Modern Classics ed
- Physical Description
- xxii, 244, 32 pages ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780062278791
- Introduction
- Foreword
- Preface
- I. Courage and Politics
- Part 1. The Time and the Place
- II. John Quincy Adams
- "The magistrate is the servant not... of the people, but of his God."
- Part 2. The Time and the Place
- III. Daniel Webster
- "... not as a Massachusetts man... but as an American..."
- IV. Thomas Hart Benton
- "I despise the bubble popularity..."
- V. Sam Houston
- "... I can forget that I am called a traitor."
- Part 3. The Time and the Place
- VI. Edmund G. Ross
- "I... looked, down into my open grave."
- VII. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
- "Today I must be true or fake ..."
- Part 4. The Time and the Place
- VIII. George Norris
- "I have come home to tell you the truth."
- IX. Robert A. Taft
- "... liberty of the individual to think his own thoughts..."
- X. Other Men of Political Courage
- "...consolation...for the contempt of mankind."
- XI. The Meaning of Courage
- Bibliography
- Index