The Pursuit of Justice.

KENNEDY, Robert F.

Item Number: 106732

New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1964.

First edition of this collection of speeches delivered by Kennedy while he was Attorney General. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Phil, At least you weren’t  in my bathroom when I got up this morning from his friend Bob Kennedy.” The recipient Philip Scheffler began working for the CBS Corporation, first as a copy boy for a news program, and then for “CBS Evening News”, as a writer, reporter, and editor, in 1951. In 1964, Scheffler began to produce documentaries and special news broadcasts. He was appointed producer of “60 Minutes” in 1971, and later promoted to senior producer in 1980. The newscasts Scheffler produced have received several awards, including the Emmy, Peabody, and Columbia-duPont awards. Individually, Scheffler has received the Alumni Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (1981) and the Townshend Harris Medal, awarded by the City College of New York (1997) for post-graduate achievement. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anita Scott. Edited by Theodore J. Lowi.

In the closing sentences of The Pursuit of Justice, Kennedy concludes: "...however wise our efforts may be in unconventional diplomacy and unconventional warfare, however sensible our diversity of weapons strategy, however great our military power and determined our counteroffensive of ideas, there is yet another obstacle to our opening to the future. That is the image of the future we project by our own example...Thus we end where we began. We must get our own house in order. We must because it is right. We must because it is right. We must because it is might."