You Are Either in the American Arena or Watching Others Shape It

Pete Hegseth is a war hero who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, a Millennial awarded honors such as the Bronze Star Medal and Combat Infantryman Badge who served as CEO of Concerned Veterans for America and Executive Director of Vets For Freedom.Beyond his service in uniform, Hegseth returned home from physical combat to vie on the political battlefield for a U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota in 2012. Though unsuccessful in that endeavor, Hegseth moved on to graduate with a master’s degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, became a Fox News contributor and just released a new book: In The Arena, Good Citizens, a Great Republic, and How One Speech Can Reinvigorate America.In The Arena gets its title from the excerpt of “Citizenship in a Republic,” a famous speech by former President Theodore Roosevelt delivered in Paris:“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there…
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