Civil courage (John F. Kennedy)

Civil courage (original title: Profiles in Courage ) is a work published in 1956 by the then US Senator from Massachusetts John F. Kennedy .

Using the example of eight different senators from US history, Kennedy describes that moral courage is the most important quality of a politician. The biographical texts deal with politicians who have acted against their previous convictions, against the line of their party or against public opinion. It introduces the following senators:

The work received great acclaim in the United States, and Kennedy received the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1957 . There have been repeated claims that the text was written by a ghostwriter , such as Gore Vidal or Kennedy's speechwriter Ted Sorensen . When Ted Sorensen published his memoir in 2008, he confessed to the authorship.

literature

John F. Kennedy: Profiles in Courage . Harper & Brothers, New York 1956 (first edition)
John F. Kennedy: Moral Courage . Wilhelm Frick Verlag, Vienna 1960 (German language first edition)
John F. Kennedy: Moral Courage . ECON Verlag, Düsseldorf / Vienna 1980, ISBN 978-3-430-15360-7 (new translation)

Footnotes

↑ https://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/28/28692/1.html
↑ Richard J. Tofel: Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2008, p W3 review of Counselor , by Ted Sorensen . wsj.com. May 9, 2008. Retrieved September 15, 2011.

[1] ttps://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/28/28692/1.html

[2] Richard J. Tofel: Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2008, p W3 review of Counselor , by Ted Sorensen . wsj.com. May 9, 2008. Retrieved September 15, 2011.