Signed book: Profiles in Courage. Later printing. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1956. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 266 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page in black ballpoint, "To Allan Sloane—Who is making the past-present. With very warmest regards, John Kennedy, 1957." Autographic condition: very fine. Book condition: VG/VG.
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.
The recipient of this special example, Allan Sloane, was a writer for radio and television who worked on Navy Log, a CBS television series that dramatized the greatest survival war stories in the history of the United States Navy. In August 1957, then-Senator John F. Kennedy served as technical adviser for the 'P. T. 109' episode of Navy Log, which related the story of the sinking of the patrol torpedo boat that he commanded during World War II. Kennedy also appeared as a guest on the broadcast of that episode. A remarkable association piece that connects JFK's past and present—from sailor to senator and soon-to-be president.
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