The Scrapbook is delighted to commend to readers a wonderful new book by our friend and contributing editor Tod Lindberg. The Heroic Heart: Greatness Ancient and Modern explores a topic, Tod writes, that “I have been working on all my life, though not until recently with a view that the problems I was trying to figure out would turn into a book one day.” It is an absorbing story he tells, at once entertaining and thought-provoking and wise. To oversimplify, one finds through history very different kinds of heroes and different kinds of greatness, not all of which we would now consider wholesome.
Heroism has been much in the news this week owing to the unhappy anniversary of 9/11. If the often-superficial discussions of the cable shows have left you wanting something more thoughtful, you need look no further than Heroic Heart.
