Profiles in Courage

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Summary: BORING!
Review: I am in the 9th grade at Holland Jr. High and my class had to read this book. I started it one night, got two paragraphs in and quit...it is SO boring! I dont understand why we have to learn about guys who have showed courage in the past, yea, maybe just briefly, but why in so much detail? Although the book has a nice format and is well written, it is only for those people who like to read boring stuff like autobiographies. I would not reccommend this nook to anyone!

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Summary: I can't stay awake when I read this book.
Review: I am currently in 9th grade and am reading this book for the first time. It's a GREAT book...if you're looking for something to put you to sleep. I hate this book! I can't read it for more than 5 minutes at a time! Why do I have to read this book? I'm sure JFK had a good reason for writing it, I just don't see why innocent 9th graders have to learn why! I mean, who actually cares how many jobs John Quincy Adams had? I have much more important things to do than use my time to read this book, but unfortunately I have to read it anyway because it's 1/4 of my grade.

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Summary: This book was written very well but was borring for kids.
Review: This book may have been written very well, but as a kid I found it boring. There Really wasn't anything in there to keep my attention. It was basically all facts about Senators that were alive many years ago. I don't think this book should be required reading because it really doesn't have any relevance to today's world. JFK should have made the book on the Senators that were in office durring the time that he wrote it and not on the Senators of the past.

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Summary: Terrible Book
Review: My friend and I had to read this book this summer for our sophomore English Class. We hated this book with a passion. Who cares about senetors a long time ago. Certainly not two teenage girls. This book was the worst book either of us had ever read. We don't recommend this to anyone even a senetor who cares.

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Summary: Should be required reading in Civics classes
Review: I first read Profiles in Courage nearly 30 years ago while still in high school. I just finished reading it again and none of its core truth has changed; if anything, recent history has reinforced it. This book will be required reading for my son and daughter as I try to pass along the values of Jeffersonian democracy embodied in the phrase "of the people, for the people, and by the people." It is worth reading every decade or so as a reminder not only of the standards to which we should hold our elected leaders, but also the standards we should strive to meet in our everyday lives. In this book, JFK refrained from partisan filtering in the selection of his profile subjects and the writing overall attempts to avoid hero worship while appropriately recognizing the act(s) of political courage. An added plus are the introduction and the closing summary, which give additional insight into the character of the author, whom none of us got to experience for as long as we would have wished. Perhaps it is time for Profiles in Courage, Volume II; a volume in which JFK himself would no doubt warrant a chapter.

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Summary: The greatest non-fiction book ever written
Review: President John F. Kennedy was without a doubt the greatest leader of the free world in the 20th century. In his three short years as president, he earned a place beside President Lincoln, President Jefferson, President Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Martin Luther King as one of this nation's greatest and most influential leaders. Theodore Sorensen did not write this book, as his public statements confirm. President Kennedy, who published his first book out of his undergraduate thesis, was perhaps the most gifted rhetorician to ever live and this ability illuminates this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, just as it illuminated his unforgettable speeches.

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Summary: Must Reading for Honest Youth Aspiring to Serve Our Country
Review: This book was painstakingly crafted by Ted Sorensen, the ghost-writer for many of John F. Kennedy's works. To Kennedy's credit, he let this work stand without contaminating it with his own editing. I read this book when it first was published, and I wish to read it again, because it highlights the tradition of morality and truth in the finest hours of some select statesmen, who have given way, seemingly, to the slick politicos of today running our country into the ground. We need true American heroes like the ones cited in this magnificent work, and fewer wannabees like the draft-dodgers working in Washington today.

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Summary: Tis book was written by 1 of the smartest men of the century
Review: I really enjoyed the reality that this book displayed to me, as it opened my eyes up to real life and the things that are happening araound the world. This book was a relevation for me and i believe it is just about the best books of all time.

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Summary: This book brings out the true meaning of patriotism.
Review: With the recent impeachment of President Clinton by the U.S. House of Representatives, and the impending trial in the Senate, "Profiles in Courage" gives an appropriate historical persepective on the impact of the impeachment process. This book allows the reader to truly understand the immense pressure each member of Congress was under at the time of the impeachement of President Andrew Johnson. It also brings into focus the sheer magnitude of the duties we have bestowed on members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate today. This book points out that an impeachement trial should not be taken lightly. As was demonstrated in "Profiles in Courage", John Kennedy skillfully portrays the agony Edmund G. Ross went through before making his decision to cast a not guilty vote - saving President Johnson - from being thrown out of office. Ross'decision would have a resounding impact on the Constitution and the history of our nation. Now, 130 years later, members of the U.S. Senate are being asked to face the same challenges that Senator Ross faced. This portion of "Profiles" should be read by every member of the U.S. Senate before any votes to throw the president out of office are cast.

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Summary: Ted Sorensen wrote this book!!!
Review: Superb writing; an excellent manifesto of how American politicians OUGHT to behave. This writing is above Jack Kennedy.