Profiles in Courage

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Summary: "Profiles in Boredom"
Review: Book Should be Entitled "Profiles of Quotes" This book though it has a good purpose (to recognize political courage) it's just a chronicle of quotes about eight "courageous" senators. The book is completely unoriginal, nothing is being said by John Kennedy, just a cut and paste job of quotes of other peoples views of the events in question. This book is dull, droning, monotonous, and I wouldn't recommend it except as a cure for insomnia.

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Summary: not worth the time - it's boring!
Review: This book is definitly not for 9th graders. We have to read it for social studies because we have a big test on it, but if you don't have to read it - don't! I don't recomend it unless you are doing a report, because it is very boring and definitly not worth the time!

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Summary: The book inspired me.
Review: The book was very inspiratoinal. I found it interesting to find out new things about presidents and senators that many people have neglected. It was also interesting to learn more about John Kennedy and his endless effort to be outgoing and coreagous and to encourage others to do the same. Some of the senators that I read about did some very remarkable things to change society. They took what they felt was right over what may have been popular to do. To me, that is courage more than anything else.

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Summary: Don't read this for pleasure!!
Review: I read this for school and found it hard to pay attention to what had happened to each senator. JFK does go into great detail through out the book talking about a senator's personality and the sacrifices they made on their career to vote on what they believed in. The book would be perfect if you want to learn about any of the senators, but I wouldn't read it twice if I didn't have to.

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Summary: Good if you like politics. a lot.
Review: I had to read this book for my ninth grade humanities class, and I did not like it at all. It was boring, repitious, and unclear of his point. He never actually states what exactly makes one specific person couragous. THe only thing that kept me focused was taking notes. The only profile that actually had impact on me was Edmund G. Ross, when he cast the deciding vote for Andrew Johnson's impeachment. That, I think, was a very brave and courageous act on his part, since it literally ended his career. That was the only one i thought was worth reading. I do not recommend this book to anyone, unless you truly enjoy reading about politics, and like very small print. I would not read this book by choice. It would be much better for adults to read.

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Summary: Good Book, Not For Anyone Other Than Social Studies Teachers
Review: I thought the book was very boring. All the book talked about was senators from way back. There aren't many people today that are interested in reading about that. ESPECIALLY 9th Graders!This book is good if you need something boring enough to put you to sleep. If you enjoy books like that, or if you want to make your students suffer through a boring and pointless book, this is the book for you.

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Summary: Not read for pleasure
Review: Profiles in Courage isn't meant to be a book that you sit down and read for pleasure. It is more of a resource to do papers, not entertainment.

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Summary: Absolutely Fantabulous!
Review: I believe that "Profiles in Courage" is a very original and unique book. It displays extraordinay qualities of some of history's most famous politicians. This book is truly inspiring and it pushes me to be all I can be and to not be afraid of shortcomings, only hopeful of the outcome. You'd be doing yourself a favor if you read this wonderful, fantastic book.

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Summary: It was very well-written, but I found it quite boring.
Review: Parts of the book are quite interesting, but the majority of the book was quite boring. I admire JFK because he himself had a lot of courage and didn't brag about it. JFK was in the Navy (1943) during WWII and his boat (PT-109) was sunk by the Japanese. The whole crew got off, but there was one man that was injured, so JFK took him off the boat and into the water. he put a rope from the man's lifejacket in his mouth and pulled him to shore. He was in the water for hours!!! While doing this he aggrivated an old back injury and got Malaria! Now that is what I call courage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: Why should 9th graders read this book???
Review: O.K., J.F.K. was a great man and wrote a very good book. It was true, well written, and informative, but a book about dead senators doesn't really interst a 14 year old 9th grader. I must admit that some parts, VERY few, were interesting, but I don't really care for this book. Actually, I hated it and would never bother to read it again! No offense to the people who gave it 5 stars, but your nuts!!--not really, I just think that this is a book for older people, not kids. And if we have to read it it should be in High School or College, no Jr. High. I would only recommend this book to old people, I mean older.