The Sixties Catalogue

37 J u l y 2 0 2 0 Inscribed By John F. Kennedy To TomWalsh, The Kennedy Family’s Financial Advisor And A Close Family Friend 35. KENNEDY, John F. Profiles in Courage. New York, circa 1960. Octavo, original half black cloth, supplied dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $9000. Click for more info Later printing of Kennedy’s Pulitzer-winning examination of “that most admirable of human virtues,” inscribed to the Kennedy family’s financial advisor and close family friend: “To Tom Walsh—with every good wish from his friend—John Kennedy.” “A series of sketches of American politicians who risked their careers in the cause of principle… The book was popular history of high order, and it received the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1957” (ANB). Later printing, without December 1955 publisher’s code. Dust jacket supplied from another copy. This copy is inscribed to Thomas J. Walsh, a longtime financial advisor for the Kennedy family and a treasured family friend. Laid-in photograph of Rose Kennedy, the Kennedy family matriarch. Book fine, dust jacket very good with creasing, scattered shallow chipping. “We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.”