Profiles in Courage | Essays and Criticism
- A Possible Explanation for JFK's Inclusion of the Men he Wrote about in Profiles in Courage
In the following essay, the author offers a possible explanation for John F. Kennedy’s inclusion of the men he wrote about in Profiles in Courage. By reviewing the historical and cultural context, she identifies qualities in some of the nine stories that may have had relevance for the time of the book’s publication.
- The Price of Courage
In the following essay, the author looks at the price of courage in the lives of four of the senators portrayed in Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage.
- The Politics
of Courage: Kennedy’s Profiles as Political Thought
In the following essay, Hammer and Maudsley examine Profiles in Courage within the context of ‘‘a Roman conception of profiling and its relationship to courage and politics.’’
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