Here are the stories of twenty Americans whose lives illustrate the meaning of courage in our modern world:

John F. Kennedy: Profiles in Courage
Charles A. Lindbergh: Lone Eagle of the Atlantic
Martin Luther King: "I Have a Dream"
Helen Keller: Symbol of Hope
Douglas MacArthur: "I Shall Return"
Richard E. Byrd: Polar Explorer
Gordon Seagrave: Burma Surgeon
Margaret Bourke-White: Photographer of Valor
Robert Goddard: Father of Rocketry
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
Audie Murphy: Most Decorated Serviceman
Amelia Earhart: Heroine of the Skies
Edward R. Murrow: Voice of America
William J. Donovan: Master of Spies
Carrie Chapman Catt: Crusader for Women Voters
Jonas Salk: Conqueror of Polio
Alan Shephard: First American Into Space
Ernie Pyle: "Here Is Your War"
Marian Anderson: Voice of Glory
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Soldier for Democracy

Each of these men and women, as Harold and Doris Faber show in this book, has extended the boundaries of human knowledge—or of the human spirit.

From the book