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COURAGE UNDER FIRE. ry of Human BehaviorJames Bond Stockdalecame to the philosophic life as a thirt y - e i g h t - y e a r-old naval pi. ot in grad school at Stanford University. I had been in the navy for twenty. years and scarcely ever out of a cockpit. In 1962, I began my second year of studying.
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Feb 1, 2020 · Courage Under Fire Stockdale tells how he discovered Stoicism, midway through his life, as a “gray-haired” thirty-eight year old naval pilot in graduate school at Stanford University.
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Jan 13, 2022 · In today’s book review we take a closer looks at a book written James Stockdale’s account of his time as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam war.
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Rhinelander explained that its author, Epictetus, was a very unusual man of intelligence and sensitivity, who gleaned wisdom rather than bitterness from his early firsthand exposure to extreme cruelty and firsthand observations of the abuse of power and self-indulgent debauchery.
C ourage Under Fire is American fighter pilot James Stockdale’s account of how he survived years of torture and isolation as a prisoner of war in Vietnam by applying ideas from stoic philosophy. One book that changed everything.
Nov 1, 2021 · Appalled by the loss of American life on “Hamburger Hill,” a remote mountain near the Laotian border in northern South Vietnam, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts took the floor of the U.S. Senate in May 1969 to condemn the 101st Airborne Division’s bloody 10-day battle.
On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters of then–U.S. President Donald Trump in an attempted self-coup d'état two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. A Barnes & Noble Favorite Indie Book Pick.
