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The first major biography of preeminent historian and intellectual Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a defining figure in Kennedys White House.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (19172007), known today as the architect of John F. Kennedys presidential legacy, blazed an extraordinary path from Harvard University to wartime London to the West Wing. The son of a pioneering historianand a two-time Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner in his own rightSchlesinger redefined the art of presidential biography. A Thousand Days, his best-selling and immensely influential record of the Kennedy administration, cemented Schlesingers place as one of the nations greatest political image makers and a key figure of the American intellectual elitea peer and contemporary of Reinhold Niebuhr, Isaiah Berlin, and Adlai Stevenson.
The first major biography of this defining figure in Kennedys Camelot, Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian presents a dramatic life and career set against the backdrop of the American Century. Biographer Richard Aldous draws on oral history, rarely seen archival documents, and the official Schlesinger papers to craft a portrait of the incandescently brilliant and controversial historian who framed Americas ascent to global empire.
8 pages of illustrations