Via the Fluffy One, we learn about a book by a wannabe leader that rather shows up Gordon Brown’s efforts:
Something that Mr James did not mention was the PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING book by a Mr Senator John F Kennedy: “PROFILES IN COURAGE”.
What an UNFORTUNATE coincidence!
Written in 1956, four years before he would become President, the book presents eight portraits profiles of US Senators who defied public opinion and their own parties in order to make a stand on an issue that was important to them.
Nor were these EASY decisions to defend: Thomas Hart Benton stayed with the Democratic party even when they were in favour of expanding slavery to the new territories; Edmund G Ross was one of seven Republicans who voted to acquit President Andrew Johnson of the rival National Union Party; Robert A Taft criticised the trial of the Nazis at Nuremburg.
I posted on this a few weeks ago. A friend tipped me off to the JFK connection after I posted. I’m sure the mainstream media will get round to giving Broon a hammering on it. At least I hope so.
http://haveringhavers.blogspot.com/2007/04/making-of-premier.html