Profiles in Courage: Young Readers Edition.

KENNEDY, John F.

Item Number: 137461

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1961.

First edition of the Young Readers edition of Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated by Emil Weiss. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.

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."