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“Courage,” Winston Churchill explained, is “the first of human qualities . . . since it guarantees all the others.” Being a naval officer, P.O.W., and one of America’s most admired political leaders, John McCain has seen many acts of bravery and self-sacrifice. Now, in this inspiring meditation on courage, he shares his most cherished stories of ordinary people who have risked everything to defend folks and principles they hold most dear.
“Were taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear however the convenience of action despite our fears,” McCain reminds us, as a way of introducing the stories of figures both famous and obscure that he finds 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, “WHILE 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 on the despot’s mercy.
These are a few of the examples McCain turns to for inspiration and will be offering to others to help them summon the resolve to be both good and great. He explains the worthiness of courage in both everyday actions and extraordinary feats. We learn why moral principles and physical courage are often not distinct quantities but two sides of the same coin. Primarily, readers discover how sometimes simply setting the right example can be the ultimate act of courage.
Written by one of your esteemed public figures, Why Courage Matters is the fact rare book with a note both timely and timeless. That is a work for anyone seeking to understand how the mystery and gift idea of courage can empower us and change our lives.
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