Profiles in Courage Inaugural Edition Author:John F. Kennedy President John F. Kennedy has abundantly proved his devotion to historical study. In this volume he has proved not only that he can write history with distinction, but that, like Theodore Roosevelt, he is passionately interested in its ethical content; that, like Lincoln, he realizes that as the future of mankind will be affected by our policies... more » and decisions, so future historians will pass inexorable judgment upon them.« less