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A Call to Heroism: Renewing America's Vision of Greatness

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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter H. Gibbon, Peter J. Gomes (Foreword by)Publish date:8/6/2003Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Grove PressISBN-13:9780802140289ISBN-10:802140289UPC:9780802140289Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Social History, Popular CultureSize:8.38 x 5.48 x 0.78 inchesWeight:0.7606Product ID:SCBJ1MS2DA

A Call to Heroism: Renewing America's Vision of Greatness

In A Call to Heroism, Peter Gibbon argues that the heroes we honor are the embodiment of the ideals that America was founded on: liberty, justice, and tolerance chief among them. Because the very concept of heroism has come under threat in our cynical media age, Gibbon believes that we must forge a new understanding of what it means to be a hero to fortify our ideals as we engage our present...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Grove PressISBN-13:9780802140289ISBN-10:802140289UPC:9780802140289Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Social History, Popular CultureSize:8.38 x 5.48 x 0.78 inchesWeight:0.7606Product ID:SCBJ1MS2DA

Peter H. Gibbon is a research associate at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Each year he travels across the nation to speak to students at over fifty schools about heroism and American ideals for the twenty-first century.

Peter J. Gomes is the chaplain of Harvard University. His best-selling books include The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart and Sermons:...

Publisher: Grove Press

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