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Courage: Eight Portraits Copertina rigida – 4 giugno 2007 . Edizione Inglese . di Gordon Brown (Autore) 4,6 4,6 su 5 stelle 9 voti. Visualizza ...
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Courage : eight portraits Author : Gordon Brown Summary : Examining the lives of people who have shown great physical and moral courage, including Nelson Mandela, Aum Sang Suu Kyi and Edith Cavell, this book reveals the common threads that emerge amongst those who show the greatest courage, but also some surprising differences
From the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: eight fascinating portraits of men and women whose lives define the meaning of courage--Edith Cavell, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Raoul Wallenberg, Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, and Nelson Mandela, Dame Cicely Saunders, and Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Courage is not a luxury, but a must in the struggle against prejudice, racism, violence, discrimination, and injustice, and in the creation of a good society (p. 242). To summarize, Brown invites his audience to better know eight courageous men and women who chose to act when others stood by, and made sacrifices that made our world a better place to live in.
In the tradition of John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles in Courage, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's fascinating collection of inspirational leaders is destined to become a staple of every politically conscious reader's library as his already-significant profile grows exponentially around the world.The prime minister explores the lives of eight outstanding twentieth-century figures ...
68 ratings by Goodreads. Softcover. ISBN 10: 0747593310 ISBN 13: 9780747593317. Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2008. View all copies of this ISBN edition: Synopsis. About this title. About this edition. Prime Minister Gordon Brown explores the lives of eight outstanding twentieth-century figures, in order to better understand courage.
