Schlesinger Richard Aldous (Bard College)

Name: Schlesinger By Richard Aldous (Bard College)
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The first major biography of pre-eminent historian and intellectual Arthur Schlesinger Jr, a defining figure in John F. Kennedy's White House.

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Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian by Richard Aldous (Bard College)

Arthur Schlesinger Jr (1917-2007), known today as the architect of John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy-and the myth of Camelot-blazed an extraordinary path from Harvard University to war-time London to the West Wing. The son of a pioneering historian-and a two-time Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner in his own right-Schlesinger redefined the art of presidential biography. A Thousand Days, remains influential and has cemented Schlesinger's place as one of the nation's greatest political image-makers.

In this vivid account, Richard Aldous draws on oral history, rarely seen archival documents and the official Schlesinger papers to craft a portrait of a brilliant and controversial historian who framed America's rise to global empirialism.

Schlesinger Reviews

The triumph of Richard Aldous's new book is that it separates the myth from the reality, explaining both the seemingly inexorable rise of Schlesinger and how he contributed so much to the subsequent mythologising of the Kennedy era. -- The Irish Times
The extent to which Schlesinger's father pulled strings for his son is one of the most intriguing revelations of Richard Aldous's new book. I generally find biographies of biographers by biographers a bore, but this is an exception. -- Niall Ferguson - The Sunday Times
What makes Aldous's book of more than incidental interest during the Trump years... is the perspective it provides on the current travails of American liberalism. -- London Review of Books
... Richard Aldous's absorbing biography will surely be the definitive account of the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. While clearly admiring of his subject, Aldous is thoughtful and insightful, and at times critical. -- Times Literary Supplement

About Richard Aldous (Bard College)

Richard Aldous is a professor of history at Bard College, where he holds the Eugene Meyer Chair. He is the author and editor of eleven books and is a contributor to television and radio on both sides of the Atlantic. Aldous's writing appears regularly in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Book Review, and The American Interest, where he is a contributing editor. He lives in Red Hook, New York.

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GOR011657178

ISBN 13

9780393244700

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0393244709

Title

Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian by Richard Aldous (Bard College)

Author

Richard Aldous (Bard College)

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

WW Norton & Co

Year published

20171110

Number of pages

496

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