A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (The Library of Great Lives)

Complete in two volumes. xv, [5], 1087, [11] pp. 8vo. Original dark green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, color frontispiece of Kennedy, new foreword by Pierre Salinger. "As special assistant to the president, Arthur Schlesinger witnessed firsthand the politics and personalities that influenced the now legendary Kennedy administration. Schlesinger’s close relationship with JFK, as a politician and as a friend, has resulted in this authoritative yet intimate account in which the president 'walks through the pages, from first to last, alert, alive, amused and amusing' (John Kenneth Galbraith)."