February 13th 2025 Auction
Signed book: Profiles in Courage. Later printing. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1956. Hardcover, 6 x 8.5, 266 pages. Signed and inscribed on the half-title page in blue ballpoint, "To Joyce—Best regards, John Kennedy." Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/None, with edgewear, rubbing to boards, and a gift inscription to the first free end page.
Kennedy underwent several life-threatening spinal operations in the 1950s and, in 1955, he was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, an insufficient output of thyroid hormones. During his convalescence period in 1954 and 1955, JFK wrote the book Profiles in Courage, which described eight instances in which US Senators risked their careers by standing up for their personal beliefs. It became a bestseller upon its release in 1956 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1957.
John F. Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person to assume the presidency by election and the youngest president at the end of his tenure. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned communist states such as the Soviet Union and Cuba.
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John F. Kennedy Signed Book - Profiles in Courage
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