The American Hero

What makes a man a hero? What does he need to do in his life in order to be remembered for his deeds? Must acts of heroism be larger than life or is heroism something to be found in the deep existential interiority of the hero? Ronald C. White explores these questions in his new book, On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a biography of an American man whose life deserves to be remembered and preserved.