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Profiles in Courage is a 1956 volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States senators.The book, authored by John F. Kennedy with Ted Sorensen as a ghostwriter, profiles senators who defied the opinions of their party and constituents to do what they felt was right and suffered severe criticism and losses in popularity as a result.
The book describes the policies, politics and personalities during Kennedy's time in office. Kennedy's cabinet is a focused aspect. It was first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1965 and won both the National Book Award in History and Biography [1] and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1966. [2]
The 1960 presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy, then junior United States senator from Massachusetts, was formally launched on January 2, 1960, as Senator Kennedy announced his intention to seek the Democratic Party nomination for the presidency of the United States in the 1960 presidential election.
The book won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction [2] and was the first in a series of books by White about American presidential elections. (The others are The Making of the President 1964 (1965), The Making of the President 1968 (1969), and The Making of the President 1972 (1973).)
A new thriller about John F. Kennedy's assassination is in the works. ... The film is co-written by Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet. Mamet co-wrote the film with Nicholas Celozzi, the ...
But John's father, Joseph P. Kennedy squashed the marriage and possibly even made the records disappear. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour M. Hersh delved into the wicked idea ...
He wrote a detailed account of the Kennedy administration, from the 1960 presidential campaign to the president's state funeral, titled A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, which won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
Journalist Drew Pearson claimed on an episode of The Mike Wallace Interview which aired in December 1957 [37] that "John F. Kennedy is the only man in history that I know who won a Pulitzer Prize for a book that was ghostwritten for him" and that his speechwriter Ted Sorensen was the book's actual author, though his claim later was retracted by ...