Describe the main characters in the book Profiles in Courage.

Profiles in Courage is, of course, a
non-fiction book.  Its characters are real people from history.  In the book John F.
Kennedy (and the people who helped him write the book) profile 8 US Senators.  They are
the main characters of the book.

The space we are allowed
here does not allow me to go into a lot of detail on each man, but I would say that the
thing they have in common is that they all demonstrated what Kennedy thinks of as
political courage.  In other words, they all did at least one thing that they thought
was right even if it would cost them politically.  The book describes the thing or
things that each of the eight men did.

The eight men
are

• John Quincy
  Adams


• Thomas Hart
  Benton


• Sam Houston


• Lucius
  Lamar


• George Norris


• Edmund
  Ross


• Robert Taft


• Daniel
  Webster