Profiles In Courage is a book that focuses on the adversities that very few United States senators have been willing to face to cultivate their ideas of a better democracy. It focuses primarily on the independent thoughts and views that those few politicians have been willing to defend, with other odds stacked against them. The first senator we focus on is John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, son of John Adams. He was a Puritan and a Federalist, with a strange loyalty to his father. One of the strange things about young Adams was his constant sense. No matter what he accomplished, and he accomplished a lot (such as being an emissary to England, a president of the United States, a minister in Russia, a senator, and many other things), he was never satisfied. on his own initiative, knowing that following his principles would lead to unpopularity, which it certainly did. When the Jeffersonians threw a party to celebrate the Louisiana Purchase, he was there, much to the disgust of other members of his party. . When three patriots died and the federalists wanted to wear crêpe in their honor for a month, he opposed it. One of the major standards Quincy set for himself was that he would not pretend or dissemble to gain popularity or voter support. Adams had only one term in the Senate that began with his obvious independent thinking and non-automatic reciprocity when he suggested that the opposing party be given an equal seat on the governor's council. He also differed from his multitude on another great issue. During his years in the Senate, Britain seized US ships. Adams condemned Britain for this, although his party pitied Britain for its wartime difficulties... middle of paper... age and adversity. In this, Kennedy did not write boring stories about historical events, but rather how people dealt with events that affected the nation's history. A member of the Senate at the time he wrote this book, he was able to express a point of view on issues that not many would have been able to do, since he knew the pressures of being placed in such a political position high position. Kennedy's views on politics are shown very clearly in this book. They are not extremely biased, but the book clearly manifests Kennedy's views on politics, not in a conventional way, but more in relation to the way it changes people's personalities. Kennedy was assassinated in Texas on November 22, 1963. The presidential term was shorter than most, he contributed to the nation through the civil rights movement and the Cuban Missile Crisis.