Six Crises

New York: Doubleday & Sons, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Doubleday & Co, Garden City, NY, 1962. 458 pp. Gray cloth, blue & gilt lettering on front cover & spine (slight shelfwear), Very Good Condition Hardcover, No DJ. Ex-library with library marks. A few marks on the title page and a small line on page 7. Front cover is lightly smudged, rear cover slightly smudged. Edges and corners are slightly rubbed. Six Crises was Nixon's response to the John F. Kennedy book, Profiles in Courage, which described the courage of eight US Senators. Kennedy sent Nixon a copy of his book, which Nixon thanked him for the next day. In 1961, following his 1960 presidential defeat to Kennedy, Nixon was encouraged by Mamie Eisenhower to write a book about his experiences. On April 20, he visited Kennedy in the White House where Kennedy urged him to write a book; he said that doing so would raise the public image of any public man. Nixon met with a Doubleday book editor the same month. Years later, Nixon's editor at Doubleday, Kenneth McCormick, recounted: "I enjoyed working with him on 'Six Crises.' He had the concept for the book. He had the whole thing in his head, but he said, 'I'm not much of a writer,' and I said, 'I know.' So Nixon talked the book into a tape recorder and another writer came in to help. Then Nixon said, 'Why don't I try the chapter on defeat? In the course of doing this I think I've learned to write.' Well, he wrote that chapter himself, and it was fine. He really was an example of someone who could learn.". ABBBB