Profiles In Courage By: John F. Kennedy 1961

Profiles In Courage By: John F. Kennedy 1961 Condition: Good considering age with some light shelf wear to dust jacket Overview:  Profiles In Courage: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Book By The President Of The United States by John F. Kennedy. New York: Harper & Row, 1961. 266 pages. Hardcover with Jacket. Dust jacket shows wear.  Moderate wear to binding, covers, pages.  Overall good condition considering age. In 1954-1955, Senator John Kennedy's convalescence from an operation to correct a disability incurred as a skipper of a World War II torpedo boat, he rediscovered, and did intensive research into the courage and patriotism of a handful of Americans who at crucial moments in history had revealed a special sort of greatness: men who disregarded dreadful consequences to their public and private lives to do that one thing which seemed right in itself. They were men of various political and regional allegiances - their one overriding loyalty was to the United States. Product details