To Turn The Tide: A Selection From President John F. Kennedy’s Public Statements From His Election Through The 1961 Adjournment of Congress, Setting Forth the Goals of His First Legislative Year.
"Every presidential decision cannot be immediately revealed in a major speech, and every presidential speech cannot reveal a major decision": First edition of John F. Kennedy's To Turn the Tide; Signed by Him
To Turn The Tide: A Selection From President John F. Kennedy’s Public Statements From His Election Through The 1961 Adjournment of Congress, Setting Forth the Goals of His First Legislative Year.
KENNEDY, John F.
Item Number: 125982
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1962.
First edition, early printing of this selection of President Kennedy’s speeches and writings from election through his first legislative year. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John F. Kennedy on the verso of the half-title page. Edited by John W. Gardner. Foreword by Carl Sandburg. Introduction by President Kennedy. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Ricki Levinson. Author photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Housed in a custom clamshell box. From the library of legendary collector Philip D. Sang. Rare and desirable signed by Kennedy.
"President Kennedy has an extraordinary capacity to express himself in speech and in writing. Rarely has an American President stated the nation's problems with such clarity, or voiced its aspirations so movingly. The reader of these pages is in no danger of getting entangled in thickets of bureaucratic prose. He will find here a lucid, instructive and eloquent introduction to the problems facing a great nation in a troubled century" (from the Editor's note).
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