Profiles in Heroism: The Dead Companions Who Taught Me How to Live

What can the dead teach us about how to live?In Profiles in Heroism: The Dead Companions Who Taught Me How to Live, Martin Robert Genter Jr. turns to the men and women whose lives have accompanied him through ambition, failure, grief, doubt, and renewal.They are not presented as flawless saints or marble statues. They are companions.From statesmen and reformers to writers, philosophers, warriors, ...