THE BURDEN AND THE GLORY. The Hopes and Purposes of President Kennedy s Second and Third Years in Office As Revealed In His Public Statements and Addresses. Edited by Allan Nevins, Foreward by President Lyndon B. Johnson
(New York: Harper & Row, 1964).
FIRST EDITION AND A HANDSOME COPY.
It is the fate of this generation- of you in Congress and of me as President- to live with a struggle we did not start, in a world we did not make. But the pressures of life are not always distributed by choice. And while no nation has ever faced such a challenge, no nation has ever been so ready to seize the burden and the glory of freedom. - John F. Kennedy to Congress, 1962. Item #31957
First Edition. 8vo, black cloth lettered in gilt, in the original handsomely printed and coloured dustjacket. xvii, 293. A fine copy in a complete and very nice dustjacket.
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