The Winds of Freedom (Inscribed by Dean Rusk, First Edition)

First Edition, First Printing -- Inscribed by Dean Rusk, Secretary of State under both President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon Johnson -- of this collection of Rusk's speeches and public statements during 1961 and the first eight months of 1962. A central figure in foreign affairs during a critical period of the Cold War that included such events as the Bay Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War. Inscribed by Dean Rusk to a senior state department official on the front endpaper. 363 pages. Has a dampstain on the fore edge of the back cover of dust jacket. There's a faint stain on the side page edge of the book.