The Strategy of Peace.

KENNEDY, John F. Edited by Allan Nevins.

Item Number: 125875

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960.

First edition of the selected foreign policy speeches and statements on defense, peace, and national security delivered by Kennedy during his 1960 presidential campaign. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Boldly signed by John F. Kennedy on the title page, which also bears two Kennedy memorial postage stamps, cancelled respectively on the 1964 anniversaries of his birth and death. From the library of legendary collector Philip D. Sang. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.

"Readers will find here instruction and sagacity on our knottier problems. They will find also a true philosophy of government, for the Senator has his own vision and his own system of ideas. The speeches will accomplish their best aim if they raise others to the level of the vision. They are rooted in a faith that the greatness of the nation lies in its plain people, who have always profoundly believed that America has a mission, and in that belief are ready to respond to calls to their higher motives" (Allan Nevins, Introduction).