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

Gibbon, Peter Hazen; Peter Hazen Gibbon (Author); Peter J. Gomes (Foreword by)

ISBN 10: 0802140289 / ISBN 13: 9780802140289

Published by Grove Press Books/ Grove Press, Inc., New York, 2002

About this Item

277 pp. Flawless book save publisher's remainder mark on top and bottom edge. Seller Inventory # 1iiiAe0011

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Call to Heroism: Renewing America's Vision...

Publisher: Grove Press Books/ Grove Press, Inc., New York

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: Trade Paperback

Illustrator: Frank Olinsky (Cover Design); Brown Brothers (Cover Photograph); Laura Hammond Hough (Design by)

Condition: Like New

Edition: 1st Grove Press Edition 2002/ 1st Print.

About this title

Synopsis:

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 challenges and face those that lay ahead. Gibbon examines the types of heroes that we have celebrated throughout our history, and along the way, he contemplates the meanings of seven monuments and artworks dedicated to heroes to examine what these places and things say about the America of their time—and what they mean for Americans today.

Full of insight and inspiration, A Call to Heroism is a provocative look at a timeless subject that has never been more important.
Chapter One What Is A Hero?
A look at the essence of heroism, and how we perceive it today

Interchapter: Hall of Fame for Great Americans
A contemplation of the Hall monument, built in New York City at the end of the 19th century by architecht Stanford White, and left to decay in the 1970s. Gibbon

About the Author:

Peter H. Gibbon is a research associate at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. In the last four years, he has traveled across the nation speaking to general audiences, to state and national education associations, and to students at over 150 schools in twenty states about heroism and heroic ideals for the twenty-first century.