wjacksonata 's review for:

Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy

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I have finished reading the book, but I did not finish the book. Don't get me wrong, JFK is a good writer and the premise of the book is excellent - the opening and closing chapters were great. The middle chapters, however, are a series of case studies based on people in history, and they are all US politicians, and all white men. This is not to say that they did not demonstrate courage in some important way, or that the chapters were not written well. It is more that I have reached my threshold for reading about that demographic.