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Profiles in Heroism
The Dead Companions Who Taught Me How to Live
Biography, memoir, and reflection on the imperfect historical figures who help us meet courage, grief, duty, and renewal.
Independently published ebook · Martin Genter
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Biography, memoir, and reflection on the imperfect historical figures who help us meet courage, grief, duty, and renewal. The book sits within Martin’s continuing exploration of how ideas shape a life, a community, and the use of human power.
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- Martin Genter
- Publication year
- 2026
- Format
- Published ebook · Reader listing on Apple Books
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The witnesses / A moral apprenticeship
What I inherit.
What I refuse.
These portraits preserve admiration with contradictions intact. The question is what a life can teach us, and what its example asks us to examine.
Robert F. Kennedy
The Tragic Conscience
Martin Luther King Jr.
Disciplined Courage
Abraham Lincoln
Tragic Statesmanship
Ulysses S. Grant
Perseverance Without Glamour
Harriet Tubman
Freedom Carried Back
Edith Hamilton
The Heroism of the Teacher
Albert Camus
Rebellion Without Hatred
Marcus Aurelius
The Limits of Self-Command
Eleanor Roosevelt
The Courage to Grow in Public
The Unnamed
Heroism Without a Biographer
The Unfinished Test
The Author, Under the Same Standard
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