Mother's emotional balance between connection and self-restraint for others

Discovering each other's true ages through a marriage license announcement

Motivation by a desire to please family rather than by fear

Father's remarriage and reduced contact during his political career

Katharine Graham's decision to hire Bradlee as editor of The Washington Post

Family's high-ranking naval legacy and its effect on John as a boy

Father's reserved nature and limited personal expression as Shah

Jim's reluctance to share war experiences and bond with brother John

McCain's grandfather's destroyer commissioning and meeting Admiral Halsey as a teenager

Father's return from captivity and becoming a presence in her life

Living with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mary Richardson Kennedy in Bedford

Father's commuting between Washington and Arizona and its impact on family life

Carol's involvement in the POW-MIA issue while John was imprisoned in Vietnam

Compassion as a path to understanding hidden pain in others

Mother's plan to hide her among corpses during the liberation of Auschwitz

Family's emphasis on creative pursuits over material wealth

Civic engagement and lessons from Japanese American incarceration history

Growing up as the only girl in a Korean-American family in Ohio

Gordon Parks' family background, near-death birth experience, and artistic calling

Obama's empathy for and advice to young Black men without fathers

Recognizing the end of her marriage through a telling moment at home

Pivotal college course that led to studying the Soviet Union

The Adams family homestead in Quincy and New England's unique traditions

Family's arrival in New York and settling in Queens as refugees

Bryan Stevenson's personal sacrifices and sense of divine purpose in his work

Mother's search for surviving family members on a community board after the Holocaust