Then Senator John F. Kennedy writes about the choices made by eight Americans who exhibited physical or moral courage under adversity: John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, Sam Houston, Edmund G. Ross, Lucuis Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, George Norris, and Robert A. Taft. 
 My edition is the 1961 abridged Young Readers Edition, I had from the Book of the Month Club back in 1961.