![]() ![]() 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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