SIGNED BY KENNEDY
To Seek a Newer World
Doubleday, 1967.
First edition. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, in original photographic dustwrapper. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. Loose letter of deaccession from the University of Vermont libraries. Fore-edge untrimmed. A very good copy, with a library bookplate to the front pastedown and library stamp to the copyright page, in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper, with general light wear.
This remains Kennedy's personal testament, and is a call to arms against injustice, poverty, and violence. In it he calls for a reassessment of the national priorities and asks for a greater emphasis on social justice, peace and equality in America. The title is taken from Tennyson's Ulysses, and the final line of the poem, "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" encompasses Kennedy's view that acceptance of the status quo need not be absolute.
Stock ID: 46339
£1,250.00
