The Promise and the Performance: The Leadership of John F. Kennedy

408pp., xi. NAP. Foreword by James MacGregor Burns. Notes, pp. 382-397; Index, pp. 399-408. Medium blue boards with darker blue cloth spine for brilliant gilt lettering; slight (1/2") peeling of paper where price sticker (ostensibly) was positioned once on front cover at top; lower corners slightly bumped inward; slight rubbing wear at spine ends and corners; small bump to lower rear cover edge at 2 1/2" to left of gutter; slight trace of paper clip once located between inside front cover and ffep: describes much worse than it is, but there you have it. Glossy blue dustwrapper not price-clipped ($9.95) with title lettering in large white letters across top third front cover, just above smaller yellow lettering for subtitle, superimposed over top of image of front cover portrait of JFK on lower 3/5 front cover; author name lettering in white across bottom front cover; spine sunned to lighter blue than front cover, white lettering still strong and eminently readable; small ruffling across spine ends with three tiny tears on lower spine end; small puncture at left front cover gutter up 1 1/2" from lower edge; 1/4" closed tear at gutter lower left front cover; 1/4" closed tear at gutter top left front cover; ruffling at lower cover corners at curls: all flaws have been backed by archival tape and dw now in Brodart mylar, which forgives all sins graciously. Dated "10/24/75" and inscribed on ffep: "For Abe--/ with many thanks,/ Lew", probably Abram Joseph Chayes, Harvard Law Professor who left the Law School to serve in the Kennedy Administration for four years, returning to the Law School then. Wikipedia obituary information reports that "he went by the nickname Abe and never used his middle name or initial". Text is clean, looks unread: tight binding. Vintage is better than new.…