The Strategy of Peace.

KENNEDY, John F.

Item Number: 131393

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 half cloth. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Terry Duro with warm regards and very best wishes Jack Kennedy.” The recipient, Terry C. Duro served as New York State delegate to the Democratic National Convention and to President Kennedy’s inauguration. Laid in is an invitation addressed to Duro from the Kennedys to a reception at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California on Kennedy’s Presidential letterhead. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited by Allan Nevins. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.

"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).