Description
A unique anthology drawn from the entire public record of every word spoken or written by our late President, The Wisdom of JFK brings together for the first time President Kennedy’s best and most enduring statements from the Presidential campaign of 1960 to the last undelivered speech.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy is generally recognized to have been our most eloquent President since Franklin Roosevelt. Not until this book, however, has any attempt been made to distill concisely the essence of his wisdom, his vision and philosophy, his plans for the future and his concern with the present.
It is by brief quotations that great statesmen are remembered longest. Within this small volume will be found the remarks that best characterize President Kennedy, as a man and as a leader of the free world. The quotations are grouped according to those concerns that were of primary importance to him and remain essential to an understanding of our times.
The Wisdom of JFK may well prove the book which, through the words the President addressed to his countrymen and the world, best reflects the image of a great American. It is a book which should endure as long as his memory survives.
