The mystery of courage
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Author
Publication
2000 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
86,500 words, Guess
Page Count
346 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL6781695M
- ISBN-100674003071
- OCLC Control Number43684601
- OCLC Control Numberisbn_9780674008267
- Library of Congress Control Number00029559
and 2 more
- LibraryThing307866
- Goodreads1063592
Classifications
- DDC179/.6
- LCCBF575.C8 M55 2000
Description
Few of us spend much time thinking about courage, but we know it when we see it--or do we? Is it best displayed by marching into danger, making the charge, or by resisting, enduring without complaint? Is it physical or moral, or both? Is it fearless, or does it involve subduing fear? Abner Small, a Civil War soldier, was puzzled by what he called the "mystery of bravery"; to him, courage and cowardice seemed strangely divorced from character and will. It is this mystery, just as puzzling in our day, that William Ian Miller unravels in this engrossing meditation.
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