![]() ![]() senator, won the Pulitzer Prize for the work. Profiles in Courage was widely celebrated and became a bestseller. ![]() Statesman Charles James Fox, in his 1783 attack upon the tyranny of the East India Company in the House of Commons, and focuses on mid-19th-century antebellum America and the efforts of senators to delay the American Civil War. It begins with a quote from Edmund Burke on the courage of the English ![]() The book profiles senators who defied the opinions of their party and constituents to do what they felt was right and suffered severe criticism and losses in popularity as a result. Profiles in Courage is a 1956 volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States senators. ![]()
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