Profiles in Courage

John F. Kennedy

Harper & Row

1961

Inaugural Edition

Volume remains very good plus: clean, sound, and unmarked throughout with a tight binding and attractive boards. The distinctive blue and black cloth binding with Kennedy’s facsimile signature remains bright and well preserved. Dust jacket shows moderate wear including creasing, rubbing, and edge wear with a clipped corner where the price was originally printed. Interior pages are clean with no writing or markings noted.

This Inaugural Edition was issued by Harper & Row following Kennedy’s election to the presidency and features a new foreword by historian Allan Nevins. The book is bound in two-tone cloth with gilt titling to the spine and Kennedy’s signature stamped in gold on the front board. The dust jacket presents the classic red, white, and blue design associated with later printings of the Pulitzer Prize–winning work and includes the photographic portrait of Kennedy on the rear panel.

Originally published in 1956 while Kennedy served as a U.S. senator, Profiles in Courage examines moments when American senators placed principle above party or political safety. The work explores figures such as John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Sam Houston, and Edmund Ross, highlighting difficult political decisions made under intense pressure. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1957, the book became closely associated with Kennedy’s public image and remains a notable piece of mid-twentieth-century American political literature.

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