This series of profiles of Americans who took courageous stands at crucial moments in public life includes John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, Sam Houston, Edmund G. Ross, Lucius Q.C. Lamar, George Norris, Robert A Taft and others.

Highlights the life and achievement of the Harvard Law School graduate, legislator, and civil rights lawyer who became the forty-fourth president of the United States through photographs and articles from Time Magazine.