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Profiles in Courage
by KENNEDY, John F
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. A Man Does What He Must"
John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize Winning Work
KENNEDY, John F. Profiles in Courage. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1964].
Memorial Edition. Octavo (8 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches; 226 x 149 mm.). [1]-287, [1, blank] pp. Photogravure frontispiece and eight pages of photogravure illustrations between pp. 32 & 33.
Full dark blue calf, front cover with gilt signature, spine with six shallow raised bands, tan endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in the original tan slipcase. A fine copy.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), then a U.S. senator, won the Pulitzer Prize for the work.
Profiles in Courage is a 1956 volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States senators. The book profiles senators who defied the opinions of their party and constituents to do what they felt was right and suffered severe criticism and losses in popularity as a result. It begins with a quote from Edmund Burke on the courage of the English statesman Charles James Fox, in his 1783 "attack upon the tyranny of the East India Company" in the House of Commons, and focuses on mid-19th-century antebellum America and the efforts of senators to delay the American Civil War. Profiles in Courage was widely celebrated and became a bestseller. It includes a foreword by Allan Nevins.
John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize Winning Work
KENNEDY, John F. Profiles in Courage. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1964].
Memorial Edition. Octavo (8 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches; 226 x 149 mm.). [1]-287, [1, blank] pp. Photogravure frontispiece and eight pages of photogravure illustrations between pp. 32 & 33.
Full dark blue calf, front cover with gilt signature, spine with six shallow raised bands, tan endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in the original tan slipcase. A fine copy.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), then a U.S. senator, won the Pulitzer Prize for the work.
Profiles in Courage is a 1956 volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States senators. The book profiles senators who defied the opinions of their party and constituents to do what they felt was right and suffered severe criticism and losses in popularity as a result. It begins with a quote from Edmund Burke on the courage of the English statesman Charles James Fox, in his 1783 "attack upon the tyranny of the East India Company" in the House of Commons, and focuses on mid-19th-century antebellum America and the efforts of senators to delay the American Civil War. Profiles in Courage was widely celebrated and became a bestseller. It includes a foreword by Allan Nevins.
Synopsis
Profiles in Courage was written by John F. Kennedy when the iconic U.S. President was still a senator. The Pulitzer Prize-winning volume of short biographies tells of eight United States Senators who shown great courage under enormous pressure from their parties and their constituents. Among Kennedy’s featured senators were: John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, Sam Houston, Edmund G. Ross, Lucius Lamar, George Norris, and Robert A. Taft. While these Senators suffered severe criticism and losses in popularity because of their actions, their stories are used to illustrate the principles and virtues that Kennedy believed were required of Americans in a century of progress. Profiles in Courage hit the bestsellers list three times: when JFK was an up-and-coming Senator in the late 1950s; after he was elected President in 1960-61; and following his assassination in 1963-64. The book led to the creation of the “Profiles in Courage” award, an annual award made to recognize displays of moral and political courage similar to those that Kennedy profiled.
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- Profiles in Courage
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- KENNEDY, John F
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- Publisher
- New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956
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