Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U. S. Senate, 1789-1990.(Review)

The Historian | September 22, 2000| | Copyright

Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U. S. Senate, 1789-1990. By Joseph Martin Hernon. (Armonk, N.Y. and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. Pp. x, 251.)

In 1957, Senator John E Kennedy of Massachusetts won the Pulitzer Prize in biography for Profiles in Courage, which examined decisive moments in the careers of a select group of earlier Senators. Joseph Martin Hernon's similarly titled book offers another approach to collective Senatorial biography: paired glimpses at the lives of long-serving Senators across American history. Hernon's guiding question is this: ...

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