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 first free end page. Consigned by the granddaughter of Governor John A. Notte, Jr., of Rhode Island, and accompanied by modern prints of three photographs of JFK visiting with Gov. Notte.
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.
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