Caroline Kennedy
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
2006, 1956
Edition
Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
During 1954-1955, John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. Senator, chose eight of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition. These heroes include John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, and Robert A. Taft. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, Profiles in Courage -- now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new introduction by Caroline Kennedy, as well as...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Shortly after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, with a nation deep in mourning and the world looking on in stunned disbelief, Jacqueline Kennedy found the strength to set aside her own personal grief for the sake of posterity and begin the task of documenting and preserving her husband's legacy. In January of 1964, she and Robert F. Kennedy approved a planned oral-history project that would capture their first-hand accounts of the late President...
