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Franklin Library leather edition of Arthur Schlesinger's "A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House," a Limited edition, Personally Signed by ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, published in 1979. Bound in a deep camel tan leather, the book has burnt orange French moire silk end leaves, a satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, who lived from 1917 – 1963, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. The CUBAN MISSILE CRISES, the BAG OF PIGS INVASION, the NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY, the establishment of the PEACE CORPS, developments in the SPACE RACE, the building of the BERLIN WALL, the CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, the "New Frontier" domestic program, and abolition of the federal death penalty in the District of Columbia--- all took place during his presidency. Kennedy also avoided any significant increase in the American presence in Vietnam, refusing to commit combat troops and keeping the level of others, mostly military advisors, to only 16,000. JFK graduated from Harvard University. After military service in the U.S. Naval Reserve in World War II, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representative from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat. Thereafter, he served in the U.S. Senate from that state from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy defeated Vice President and Republican candidate RICHARD NIXON in the 1960 U.S. Presidential Election. At age 43, he was the youngest man to have been elected to the office, and the first person born in the 20th century to serve as president; to date, he has been the only Roman Catholic president. Schlesinger's biography is the "definitive" work and Mrs. Kennedy and the Kennedy family gave exclusive interviews and he had access to papers other writers did not have. 937 pages, including an Index. I offer Combined shipping.