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Courage, Winston Churchill explained, is the rst of human qualities . . . because it guarantees all the others. As a naval officer, P.O.W., and one of Americas most admired political leaders, John McCain has seen countless acts of bravery and self-sacrifice. Now, in this inspiring meditation on courage, he shares his most cherished stories of ordinary individuals who have risked everything to defend the people and principles they hold most dear.We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear but the capacity for action despite our fears, McCain reminds us, as a way of introducing the stories of gures both famous and obscure that he nds most compellingfrom 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, When I care about something, Im prepared to take the long, hard road, to Hannah Senesh, who, in protecting her comrades in the Hungarian resistance against Hitlers SS, chose a martyrs death over a despots mercy.
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Senator John McCain entered the Naval Academy in June of 1954. He served in the United States Navy until 1981. He was elected to the US House of Representatives from Arizona in 1982 and to the Senate in 1986. He was the Republican Party's nominee for president in the 2008 election. He is the author of Faith of My Fathers, Worth Fighting For, Why Courage Matters, Character Is Destiny, Thirteen Soldiers, and The Restless Wave.
