Status Updates From Profiles in Courage

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar is one of the craziest names I’ve ever heard lmao

Once again, mid-19th Century politics prove to be absolute chaos and Thomas Hart Benton was kind of a freak lol

Pretty interesting so far. The way JFK (or more likely Ted Sorensen) writes about the senators seems to cut through the prestige and get to the real person. I will say that it’s annoying me that in the John Quincy Adams section, they’re referring to Democratic-Republicans/Jeffersonians as “Republicans” possibly to make it simpler for the reader but they’re completely different parties decades apart