Profiles in Courage (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- First Published: 1956
- Time of Work: 1803–1946
- Setting: Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, Sam Houston, Edmund G. Ross, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, George Norris, Robert A. Taft
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Politics, Courage, Politicians, Biography, Congresses or conventions
- Locales: Washington, D.C.
Form and Content
Profiles in Courage, which won John F. Kennedy the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1957, is a series of brief sketches describing important decisions in the lives of eight United States senators. Although the work is not intended to be an extensive historical work or a complete biography of its subjects, Kennedy does begin each set of profiles with a section entitled “The Time and the Place.” These introductory essays provide the reader with essential information about the period in which each senator lived and summarize the major political issues of...
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