The Stages of Economic Growth

What I've always personally considered just about the single most profound and brilliant book on macroeconomics of all time, nonmathematical, yet with really profound mathematical economic implications, albeit a supremely readable amd brilliant treatise, I've always thought, by a member of the JFK cabinet, a non-Communist manifesto, which, for those of you who might never have stumbled across it, the book would, I think, profoundly alter your philosophic viewpoints as to politicomilitary as well as socioeconomic history, an absolute must for any serious student in such areas, should be absolutely required reading for virtually all svc mbrs, impersonally think,mid be eager to know any views, many thanks, I read it as an undergrad, and it's implications have never left my mind in all that time, it's really that good, promise, slow to read at times, yet infinitely worthwhile, promise....