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Kennedy</a><hr></h2><div class="authorsandseries"><h3><b>Other authors:</b> <a href="/author/nevinsalan">Alan Nevins</a> (Foreword), <a href="/author/sorensentheodorec">Theodore C. 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That's what happens when you hear about something so much but you never actually think to LOOK at it. A slim volume, all about people (mostly men, consider the times) who voted or stood for something that was basically guaranteed to lose them the next election. <br><br>When I finished the book, I wrote to the Library of Congress and nominated Liz Cheney for an award. It is too soon for her, but she spectacularly exemplified an elected official who stood for something all the while knowing it was her death knell. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss9.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_239226687" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_239226687"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_239226687" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_239226687" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_239226687"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/kaulsu" target="_top">kaulsu</a> | Apr 21, 2023 | <a href="/review/239226687"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_233528955" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>This is a book today's politicans need to read. When elected to office, you represent all, not just thoes wuoud pay you to agree with them. No politician should come in poor and leave rich.<br><br>FROM JFK PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY: John F. Kennedy had long been interested in the topic of political courage, beginning with his senior thesis at Harvard. The thesis, later published as Why England Slept, was a study of the failure of British political leaders in the 1930s to oppose popular resistance to rearming, leaving the country ill-prepared for World War II. <br><br>Kennedy’s election to the House in 1946 and the Senate in 1952 gave him personal experience in dealing with the conflicting pressures that legislators face. <br><br>When Kennedy took a leave of absence from the Senate in 1954 to recover from back surgery, it gave him the opportunity to study the topic of political courage. The project resulted in the publication of Profiles in Courage, which focuses on the careers of eight United States Senators whom Kennedy felt had shown great courage under enormous pressure from their parties and their constituents. <br><br>His own battles with physical pain and his experiences in World War II as a PT boat commander also gave him inspiration. Profiles in Courage, which Kennedy dedicated to his wife Jacqueline Kennedy, received the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1957. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_233528955" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_233528955"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_233528955" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_233528955" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_233528955"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Gmomaj" target="_top">Gmomaj</a> | Jan 21, 2023 | <a href="/review/233528955"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_203639103" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>i read this for a high school history or english class. i can't remember which. what i do remember is this being one of the first nonfiction books that i truly enjoyed. since then, the true authorship of this slim little volume has been hotly debated; but the substance remains the same. it's a delightful collection of essays on famous american figures and their contributions to our country's history.<br><br>my current copy is from 1964 and in good-enough-to-read-without-the-pages-falling-out condition so i think i'll be rereading it at some point this year!</div><div id="rfd_203639103" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_203639103"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_203639103" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_203639103" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_203639103"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/cthuwu" target="_top">cthuwu</a> | Jul 28, 2021 | <a href="/review/203639103"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_203194661" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>This is a reprint of the 1957 mass market paperback edition. Read it in Junior High School (my copy was printed in 1961). It was an inspiring portrait of what political life could be, both in the pressures weighing on those who hold public office, as well as the potential for taking a courageous stand. As far as authorship goes, in the foreword, Kennedy credits Sorensen with research and first drafts, so as far as I'm concerned, Kennedy was transparent about the process by which the book came about. He was personally well-read, with an avid interest in American history, so it's not as if he was trying to claim expertise he did not possess.<br><br>A good read. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss6.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_203194661" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_203194661"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_203194661" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_203194661" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_203194661"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/HenrySt123" target="_top">HenrySt123</a> | Jul 19, 2021 | <a href="/review/203194661"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_200093749" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Kennedy was, and still is, many things to many people, but one of his aspects that doesn't get as much attention as it should is his writing. Profiles in Courage is a focused review of eight Senators in US history, chronicling instances where that man defied the pressures of various forces - his party, his state legislature, his President, but above all his constituents the American people - in a moment of national crisis, enduring insults from all sides in the conviction that the fevers of the moment would eventually pass and their lonely stands would be vindicated by history. Now, I personally happen to believe that there are few institutions more contemptible than the Senate, and I think that this prejudice is rightly shared by anyone regardless of partisanship who has paid even a bit of attention to the almost unbelievably corrupt bargains that take place there (see: TARP, the stimulus, health care reform, financial reform), so I was less than thrilled at the prospect of reading a self-congratulatory (Kennedy was a sitting Senator when he wrote the book) paean to one of the sorriest gangs of grandées in history. But by the end of it I was extremely impressed, not only by its scholarship and writing quality, but that Kennedy had actually made me admire some Senators of the United States. The underlying theme is that in order to tell the difference between an actual act of courage and your everyday Lieberman or Collins-ish fit of unprincipled to-thine-own-lobbyist-be-true petulance, the Senator in question has to be acting out of loyalty to both the future of the country, and to their own inner moral voice. This is how Kennedy can group Sam Houston's refusal to vote for Texas to join the Confederacy with George Norris' filibuster of the Armed Ship Bill in the runup to World War 1: in each case, the Senator was confronted with the dilemma of a clash between their own carefully-reasoned personal convictions, and their sense that they should represent the wishes of the people in their states. Kennedy was elected after the passage of the 17th Amendment, and discusses it in the fascinating final chapter, where he raises many good questions: What's the most democratic method to counter the flaws of democracy? When should the need for compromise outweigh the need to take a stand? Does it really serve the national interest to allow one man to obstruct everyone else? Should men subdue their own consciences in the interests of their party and their cause, or vice versa? He also links his notion of political courage to the virtue that everyday normal people would consider courage, thus placing the book a step above a mere political biography. Kennedy's Pulitzer was well-deserved, even if his adviser Ted Sorensen wrote a good deal of it. I'd previously thought that Barack Obama's books were fairly well-written, but this blew them away. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_200093749" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_200093749"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_200093749" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_200093749" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_200093749"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/aaronarnold" target="_top">aaronarnold</a> | May 11, 2021 | <a href="/review/200093749"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_197063350" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Kennedy recounts tales of U.S. Senators who risked, and frequently lost, their political careers and reputations by going against their constituents. He describes courage as "that most admirable of human virtues." I don't think it's that simple; people can be courageous in the pursuit of truly awful convictions. Kennedy argues that whether or not one was courageous cannot be judged by whether one's cause seems dubious in hindsight, but some of these people did things that were morally indefensible to many people in their own time. <br><br>Kennedy struggles with, but ultimately flounders, in trying to describe the balance needed to represent constituents, and exercise political and moral judgement. I agree that we need the latter, and I vote for people who's judgement I think i can trust, but, unfortunately, I think that a lot of the turn to the right in both the United States and Europe is from too much confidence on the part of the political class that they know best and the unenlightened can be safely ignored. They are still on the voting rolls, a fact which too many people prefer to ignore, and if they feel too ignored, they are likely to find someone who pays more attention. I would suggest reading Eric Wilson's <i>Running Against the Devil : A Plot to Save America from Trump -- and the Democrats from Themselves</i>. <br><br>My other problem is that for a long time, histories of the Civil War period were dominated by Southern writers. What Kennedy says reminds me of what I learned in school in Maryland (I was born in 1953), that I have come to believe, reading history as an adult, was largely wrong.<br><br>Andrew Johnson, who is often regarded as one of the worst presidents, was supposedly trying to follow Lincoln's humane direction, whereas the nasty Republican Congress was trying to punish them. One of the chief points of conflict is that the Congress wanted to prevent the people who had led the South into secession from dominating politics after the war, whereas Johnson was busy pardoning them so that they could. I think that repeatedly referring to Benjamin Butler as "Butcher Butler" is totally unwarranted -- who is he supposed to have butchered? He was certainly a stringent military governor in New Orleans, and extremely unpopular, but on the whole, he did a fairly good job, taking heretofore unheard of precautions against yellow fever and reducing street crime.<br><br>Robert A. Taft may have been brave, but his timing was exasperating. As one of his colleagues commented, if Taft thought the Nuremburg Trials were of dubious equality, why didn't he say so at the beginning, instead of waiting until the trials were over and the convicted sentenced to hanging? Apparently, despite his arguments, it was actually the death penalty that bothered him, but again, his timing was poor. If the Allies had no legal right to execute leading Nazis, under what law would they send them to exile on an island (like Napoleon)?<br><br>Keeping these things in mind, the book is still interesting to read. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss6.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_197063350" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_197063350"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_197063350" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_197063350" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_197063350"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/PuddinTame" target="_top">PuddinTame</a> | Feb 27, 2021 | <a href="/review/197063350"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_62914279" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>In these days of political upheaval, I turned to John F. Kennedy, one of the heroes of my childhood, and to reread his account of those brave politicians who acted, not in their own interests, but in the interest of their country. I especially wanted to re-read his account of the Andrew Johnson impeachment and Edmund Ross, who voted for acquittal. It is eerily pertinent. Johnson decided to follow the path laid out by Abraham Lincoln to reunite the country. The radicals wanted to punish the south. So impeachment and removal was their way of getting rid of their obstacle. So it was with Clinton and so it is with Trump; a use of impeachment frowned upon by the Constitution. Edmund Ross and others refused to follow the others and for this he was vilified.<br><br>There are many other examples of courage in this book. We ought to take a deep breath and listen to these words by a Democrat who would no longer be welcome in his own party. It might make a difference. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_62914279" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_62914279"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_62914279" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_62914279" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_62914279"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/fdholt" target="_top">fdholt</a> | Dec 14, 2019 | <a href="/review/62914279"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_176393583" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>I'm sorry, but this was definitely not my type of book. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss2.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_176393583" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_176393583"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_176393583" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_176393583" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_176393583"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/KendraJ." target="_top">KendraJ.</a> | Dec 10, 2019 | <a href="/review/176393583"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_176300089" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>This is a deeply problematic book, and the fact that it is so widely lauded as a classic by many very intelligent people is a sign that our political ideals are based more on the idea of winning some game than of producing the best outcome for our country. Although it's not entirely untrue that some of the senators Kennedy profiled did show enormous courage, this is not necessarily a good thing in and of itself. Indeed, a number of the senators in this book have explicitly negative legacies. The most egregious is Lucius Lamar, who Kennedy praises for giving a nice speech for his political enemy Charles Sumner (who has much more right to be praised than Lamar does) and for going against the Southern tradition of a senator's vote being dictated by the state legislature, on the issue of free silver. What Kennedy does not mention is Lamar's central role in the fight against abolition and reconstruction in Mississippi -- in fact, Lamar was responsible for the infamous "Mississippi Plan," in which black voters were massacred, terrorized, and kept from the polls to ensure a Democratic victory in the 1875 elections. Whether or not the person responsible for such an egregious violation of democracy (Lamar wrote of the "blackest tyranny" of the "brute masses") was a good orator is beside the point -- it is impossible for a learned observer to call such a person courageous. <br><br>Of course Kennedy can be somewhat forgiven on this front, because he didn't write the book himself. Instead he gave the task to his speechwriter Thomas Sorenson, who is clearly not invested in the book. The writing is melodramatic and childish, and the sourcing incredibly sloppy (at least for the Lamar chapter, which again is the one I am the most familiar with). I doubt that either Kennedy or Sorenson even knew of Lamar's role in the Mississippi Plan. Nevertheless, we do get some idea of Kennedy's own beliefs filtered through Sorenson -- particularly his fascination with big, aristocratic families and the superior morality of the "genius." There is a distinct anti-democratic strain in this novel, which blames the "masses" for expecting to know better than their educated leaders. That Kennedy's millionaire father bought the Pulitzer (over the Committee's misgivings) just goes to show how deeply the belief in money and genius ran in that family. <br><br>Falsely attributed, sloppily sourced, and illegitimately awarded -- this book is a prime example of the corrupt, selfish view of politics held by JFK and his father. It suffers, as does the legacy of Kennedy himself, from a sick conception of politics as noble struggle, a Nietzschean proving ground where young aristocrats (like Kennedy and many of the senators mentioned) can get the power and respect they feel like they deserve. Skip this book unless you want an insight into the Kennedy family (who, to be fair, did produce a few genuinely inspiring politicans). <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss4.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_176300089" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_176300089">2</span> <img title="2 members found this review helpful" id="rvi_176300089" alt="vote" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/voteup-y.gif"></span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_176300089" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_176300089" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_176300089"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Roeghmann" target="_top">Roeghmann</a> | Dec 8, 2019 | <a href="/review/176300089"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_149188602" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Great reminder in the embarrassing times of 'Trump' that there can be genuine character in the Presidency today, NOT reality show shit. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_149188602" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_149188602"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_149188602" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_149188602" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_149188602"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Brightman" target="_top">Brightman</a> | Dec 16, 2017 | <a href="/review/149188602"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_137118645" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Senators who stood against the popular will, often including the will of their own states, in causes good and maybe not so good—Kennedy was extremely forgiving of various men who wished to preserve the Union by putting off the question of slavery to another day. Here’s Kennedy, writing words that we perhaps find hard to believe today: “The true democracy, living and growing and inspiring, puts its faith in the people—faith that the people will not simply elect men who will represent their views ably and faithfully, but also elect [those] who will exercise their conscientious judgment—faith that the people will not condemn those whose devotion to principle leads them to unpopular courses, but will reward courage, respect honor and ultimately recognize right.” I guess we’ll see whether we have that true democracy any more. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss6.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_137118645" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_137118645"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_137118645" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_137118645" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_137118645"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/rivkat" target="_top">rivkat</a> | Dec 23, 2016 | <a href="/review/137118645"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_130584287" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Read this in the summer between my sophomore and junior year of high school. It is still one of the best books I have read. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_130584287" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_130584287"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_130584287" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_130584287" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_130584287"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Leenie3327" target="_top">Leenie3327</a> | May 30, 2016 | <a href="/review/130584287"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_103891938" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>I read this book at the turn of the millennium. If I remember correctly I tracked it down via the internet, possibly one of the first books I bought on the internet. Then again, I have a memory of talking on my cell phone to a sales representative, specifically asking for a hardback edition, which was successfully fulfilled. When I received the edition, I sat down every day after work for 30 to 45 minutes, reading a chapter or two. I was impressed by the praise JFK laid upon politicians, writers and public figures over the previous century or two, who stood up for their beliefs and did not relent to social norms, or political partisanship. Most of them were not politically successful in their philosophies, yet they stood strong against all those who disagreed and argued for a different direction. Instead of calling them martyrs or misunderstood, he called them courageous. The inspiration that drove him, is the inspiration that often drives me. For this, I am very thankful. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_103891938" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_103891938">1</span> <img title="1 member found this review helpful" id="rvi_103891938" alt="vote" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/voteup-y.gif"></span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_103891938" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_103891938" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_103891938"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/guhlitz" target="_top">guhlitz</a> | Nov 22, 2013 | <a href="/review/103891938"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_11081189" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>759. Profiles in Courage, by John F. Kennedy (read 21 Dec 1963) (Pulitzer Biography prize for 1953) I found these sketches of courgeous political figures well-done and interesting, whether JFK wrote them or not. As an Iowan I appreciated James Grimes being recognized as a man of courage--he certainly suffered for being such in his lifetime. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_11081189" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_11081189"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_11081189" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_11081189" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_11081189"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Schmerguls" target="_top">Schmerguls</a> | Jun 9, 2013 | <a href="/review/11081189"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_30782933" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>I found this book rather interesting given the times we live in today. Much like many books written by famous people today, John McCain, Bethany Frankel, Pamela Anderson or any other person of fame, others write and the star gets the credit. There are those who question whether JFK wrote the book, his name is on the cover and he is credited with being the author. <br><br>The book is interesting because unfortunately in our time of partisan politics it is rare when someone bucks the majority and votes their conscience or what the country really needs. We need more politicians who look out for the country first and their narrow minded partisan groups last, right/left, Republican/Democrat, Liberal/Conservative.<br><br>A must read for the history major. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_30782933" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_30782933"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_30782933" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_30782933" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_30782933"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/foof2you" target="_top">foof2you</a> | Apr 5, 2013 | <a href="/review/30782933"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_94406232" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>I first read this book in my teens when I was very much a Kennedy admirer. These days, I'm decidedly ambivalent about him and his presidency, and rather emblematic of that is what I've learned of this Pulitzer Prize winning book since first reading it. By all rights, the byline for this book should read Ted Sorenson, not John F. Kennedy. In his autobiography, <i>Counselor</i>, Sorenson admitted what had been rumored for years--that he largely researched and wrote Kennedy's book for him, writing "the first draft of most chapters." At best, it was a collaboration, but one heavily weighted towards Sorenson. As he explained, "While in Washington, I received from Florida almost daily instructions and requests by letter and telephone – books to send, memoranda to draft, sources to check, materials to assemble, and Dictaphone drafts or revisions of early chapters." So Kennedy did oversee the production, but much of the writing isn't his.<br><br>Herbert Parmet, a historian who wrote a book on Kennedy, analyzing <i>Profiles in Courage</i> does believe Kennedy largely wrote the opening and closing thematic chapters, and those are I think the parts of the book of enduring historical interest given his presidency. In them Kennedy lays out a philosophy of governance. Elected representatives, Kennedy avers, should not "serve merely as a seismograph to record shifts in popular opinion." I've seen some reviewers lambast that view, claiming that for elected representatives to go against their constituencies, whatever their own views, is undemocratic. Personally, I'd counter that America is not a democracy, not a direct one, and was never designed to be. We're a republic. We elect representatives who are supposed to exercise their best judgement, then defend it to their constituencies who are then free to elect someone else if they don't agree. I'm with Kennedy on that.<br><br>Kennedy did apparently come up with the idea of the book: stories of eight United States Senators who cast unpopular, potentially career-ending votes. The profiles included some names I think will be familiar to anyone acquainted with American History: John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Sam Houston and Robert Taft. The other names are much more obscure, although I found the story of Edmund G. Ross, who cast the deciding vote not to impeach President Andrew Johnson, the most memorable in the book. (Although not mentioned is that there is considerable evidence Ross was bribed for his vote. But that wouldn't make for a profile of courage, would it?) All in all, I did find the stories entertaining, but insightful, impressive works of history worthy of an award? No. But I think those opening and closing chapters, "Courage in Politics" and "The Meaning of Courage" well worth reading and thinking about for anyone interested in politics, particularly the American system. That's why in my estimation the book is worth a three-star rating, whatever its genesis and flaws. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss6.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_94406232" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_94406232"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_94406232" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_94406232" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_94406232"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/LisaMaria_C" target="_top">LisaMaria_C</a> | Feb 24, 2013 | <a href="/review/94406232"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_76114488" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>I love this book! Very Inspiring! <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_76114488" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_76114488"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_76114488" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_76114488" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_76114488"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/zen_923" target="_top">zen_923</a> | Jul 26, 2011 | <a href="/review/76114488"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_24081543" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Should be required reading for every HS student and everyone running for office. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_24081543" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_24081543"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_24081543" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_24081543" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_24081543"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Yestare" target="_top">Yestare</a> | Dec 6, 2007 | <a href="/review/24081543"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_20878788" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>I picked up "Profiles in Courage" in July at the JFK Library in Boston where it was extensively praised in the video tribute. It also garnered a Pulitzer. I love US history and like JFK. Everything points to me liking this book. Unfortunately, I did not. This is a political book masquerading as history. JFK covers all the bases. Here a nod to intolerant Southerners, there a wink to isolationist Midwesterners and for starters some goodies for conservatives. The key message: Don't fear my presidency, I am not a Massachusetts liberal. This "inclusiveness" wrecks any kind of consistency in the cases selected. <br><br>It is not a surprise if senators do no come to mind if one imagines courageous people. Nay-saying is the chief function of the senate. It is a feature and not a bug. Senators have little to fear for nay-saying. Incumbents are nearly impossible to unseat, way past their shelf-life. Their six year terms leave ample time for amnesia to work. Courage for a senator according to Kennedy is voting against their party/state interest. I would divide JFK's examples into three categories: 1) Conscience voters: Thomas Hart Benton (MO, pro Union), Sam Houston (TX, against secession), Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (MS, against currency debasing), George Norris (NE, filibustered WWI entry). 2) Legalists: Edmund G. Ross (KS, against impeachment), Robert A. Taft (OH, against Nürnberg death penalties). 3) Compromisers: John Quincy Adams (MA, pro Embargo), Daniel Webster (MA, slavery compromise). Among the decisions only Edmund Ross' refusal to vote for Johnson's impeachment had a historic impact. All the other events would have happened even if the senator under discussion had voted otherwise (the 1850 compromise is debatable, though).<br><br>Overall, a not particularly well written book which served its purpose in adding an intellectual halo to JFK but does not stand the test of time. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss6.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_20878788" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_20878788">4</span> <img title="4 members found this review helpful" id="rvi_20878788" alt="vote" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/voteup-y.gif"></span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_20878788" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_20878788" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_20878788"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/jcbrunner" target="_top">jcbrunner</a> | Sep 9, 2007 | <a href="/review/20878788"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_17691517" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>This is a great book. John F. Kennedy wrote this when he was a senator and he focused on eight U.S. senators and their acts of courage or bravery (they chose to do what was right, even if it meant they would have to pay for it later by loss of popularity or whatever). He focused on both republicans, democrats, and the federalists and the book later won the Pulitzer Prize. Of note, a couple of the senators mentioned are John Adams and Robert Taft. I really really liked this book, it was interesting and showed that not everyone in the Senate were horrible people. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_17691517" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_17691517"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_17691517" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_17691517" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_17691517"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Angelic55blonde" target="_top">Angelic55blonde</a> | Jun 29, 2007 | <a href="/review/17691517"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_6324940" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Ted Sorensen wrote a pretty good book. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss6.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_6324940" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_6324940">1</span> <img title="1 member found this review helpful" id="rvi_6324940" alt="vote" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/voteup-y.gif"></span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_6324940" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_6324940" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_6324940"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Poemblaze" target="_top">Poemblaze</a> | Sep 5, 2006 | <a href="/review/6324940"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_211868709" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Kindle Edition</div><div id="rfd_211868709" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_211868709"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_211868709" title="Flagged as not a review" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-blue.gif"> <img id="rfi2_211868709" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_211868709"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/semoffat" target="_top">semoffat</a> | Jan 29, 2022 | <a href="/review/211868709"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_50123756" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/82293" data-workid="82293" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854936.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Sheila's name is in the front of the book signed by her This Edition is preceded by a special memorial forward by Robert F. 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