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Ryan Holiday begins his series on the four cardinal virtues of ancient philosophy with courage, which he treats as the most foundational of them. Fear is natural, the Stoics believed, but it must not rule a person, and courage is the ability to rise above it and do what is right. Holiday examines the elements of fear, courage and heroism through stories of leaders such as Florence Nightingale, Charles de Gaulle and Martin Luther King Jr. He also turns to lesser known figures, among them Helvidius Priscus, a Roman senator who defied the emperor Vespasian, the police whistleblower Frank Serpico, and Nelly, an enslaved woman whose resistance inspired Frederick Douglass. It was an instant New York Times best seller.
Matthew McConaughey endorsed it, praising how it follows courage and its many faces across the ages before ending in an urgent call to arms for everyone today.
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Ryan Holiday's Courage is Calling traces the history of courage and its many faces through the ages and arrives at the present day with an urgent call to arms for each and all of us.
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