Editing Profiles in Courage (section)

==Reception==
After its release on January 1, 1956, ''Profiles in Courage'' became a bestseller. The book won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography|Pulitzer Prize for Biography]] in 1957, even though it was not one of the finalists forwarded to the prize board from the selection committee. Kennedy's father [[Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.|Joseph]] asked columnist [[Arthur Krock]], his political adviser and a longtime member of the prize board, to persuade others to vote for it.<ref name="leamer2001">{{cite book | title=The Kennedy Men: 1901–1963 | publisher=HarperCollins | author=Leamer, Laurence |authorlink=Laurence Leamer | year=2001 | isbn=0-688-16315-7 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/kennedymen19011900leam |pages=402–03}}</ref>{{r|fehrman20200211}}

The book returned to the bestseller lists in 1961 after Kennedy became president and again in 1963 after he was assassinated.<ref>{{cite news | title=In and Out of Books; 'Profiles' East Europe Mr. Caldwell James Bond Publishers' Row|work=The New York Times|date=December 15, 1963|author=Nichols, Lewis}}</ref>

''Profiles in Courage'' was the basis of a [[Profiles in Courage (TV series)|television series of the same]] name that aired on the [[NBC]] network during the 1964–1965 [[television season]].

In 1956, Kennedy gave a copy of the book to [[Richard Nixon]], who responded that he was looking forward to reading it. After being defeated by Kennedy in the [[1960 United States presidential election]], Nixon was advised by [[Mamie Eisenhower]] to write a book himself. Nixon visited the White House in April 1961 and got the same advice from Kennedy: writing a book would raise the public image of any public man. Nixon wrote his book ''[[Six Crises]]'' (1962) in response to ''Profiles in Courage''.<ref name="Matthews 1997">{{cite book |last=Matthews |first=Christopher |author-link=Chris Matthews |title=Kennedy & Nixon: the rivalry that shaped postwar America |year=1997 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=0-684-83246-1 |page=106}}</ref><ref name="Delson 2009">{{cite web |url=http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/literary-vices-with-rudolph-delson-richard-nixons-six-crises |title=Literary Vices, with Rudolph Delson: Richard Nixon's 'Six Crises' |last=Delson |first=Rudolph |author-link=Rudolph Delson |date=November 10, 2009 |work=The Awl |access-date=February 22, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110227064721/http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/literary-vices-with-rudolph-delson-richard-nixons-six-crises |archive-date=February 27, 2011 }}</ref><ref name="Roper 1998">{{cite journal |last=Roper |first=Jon |title=Richard Nixon's Political Hinterland: The Shadows of JFK and Charles de Gaulle |year=1998 |journal=Presidential Studies Quarterly |volume=28 |url=https://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst?docId=5001348667 |via= |access-date= |url-status= |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628220620/https://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst?docId=5001348667 |archivedate=June 28, 2011}}{{dl|date=July 2021}}</ref>

In response to criticism that the book included only men, in 1958 Kennedy published an article in the women's magazine ''[[McCall's]]'' that honored "Three Women of Courage," by adding [[Jeannette Rankin]], [[Anne Hutchinson]], and [[Prudence Crandall]] to his Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Kennedy |first=John F. |year=1958 |volume=January |title=Three Women of Courage |magazine= [[McCall's]] |publisher= [[McCall Corporation]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last= Pasley |first= Jeffrey L. |contribution = Profiles in Triangulation: John F. Kennedy’s Neoliberal History of American Politics |contribution-url= https://www.academia.edu/72504438/Profiles_in_Triangulation_John_F_Kennedy_s_Neoliberal_History_of_American_Politics |date= 2019 |editor-last1= Collar |editor-first1= Seth |editor-last2= Ellis |editor-first2=Richard J. |title= Historian in Chief. How Presidents Interpret the Past to Control the Future
|publisher= University of Virginia Press |pages= 205–229 |isbn= 9780813942520 |access-date= January 23, 2025 }}</ref>