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"Courage," Winston Churchill explained, is "the rst of human qualities . . . because it guarantees all the others." As a naval officer, P.O.W., and one of America's most admired political leaders, John McCain has seen countless acts of bravery and self-sacrifice. Now, in this inspiring meditation on courage, he shares his most cherished stories of ordinary individuals who have risked everything to defend the people and principles they hold most dear."We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear but the capacity for action despite our fears," McCain reminds us, as a way of introducing the stories of gures both famous and obscure that he nds most compelling--from the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to Sgt. Roy Benavidez, who ignored his own well-being to rescue eight of his men from an ambush in the Vietnam jungle; from 1960s civil rights leader John Lewis, who wrote, "When I care about something, I'm prepared to take the long, hard road," to Hannah Senesh, who, in protecting her comrades in the Hungarian resistance against Hitler's SS, chose a martyr's death over a despot's mercy.These are some of the examples McCain turns to for inspir

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Author

John McCain with Mark Salter

Publisher

New York: Random House Large Print: Distributed by Random House

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375432347

Category

religious

Subjects

Philosophy, Religion, Humanities

Rating

4.6 / 5 (249 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14