Profiles in Courage.

"In lieu of the Senator's inscription I am sure that when he knows of your dedication he will want to sign himself": JOHN F. KENNEDY'S PROFILES IN COURAGE; INSCRIBED BY HIS POLITICAL AIDE "MIKE" MYER FELDMAN

Profiles in Courage.

KENNEDY, John F.

Item Number: 119061

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.

Early printing of Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, with eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. Association copy, inscribed on the front pastedown by Kennedy’s aide “Mike” Myer Feldman, “To Edythe In lieu of the Senator’s inscription I am sure that when he knows of your dedication he will want to sign himself. Mike Feldman.” “Mike” Myer Feldman served as an American political aide in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Under Kennedy he was tasked with compiling negative information on Richard Nixon during Kennedy’s election campaign, as well as helping with speech writing and television interviews. The recipient, Edythe Jacobs was an educator, political activist and environmental advocate who volunteered for the Kennedy campaign. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jack design by Phil Grushkin. Jacket photograph by Hank Walker.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning book was written when Kennedy was the junior senator from Massachusetts, and it served as a clarion call to every American. The inspiring accounts of eight previous heroic acts by American patriots inspired the American public to remember the courage progress requires. Now, a half-century later, it remains a classic and a relevant testament to the national spirit that celebrates the most noble of human virtues. Kennedy relates these heroisms to sketches of American politicians who have risked their careers for principle. "A man does what he must," he wrote, "in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all human morality."

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