From his entrance into Democratic leadership circles in the 1950s through his years in the Kennedy administration and up until his last days, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., was always at the vital center of American politics. For more than half a century, the master historian recorded his experiences and opinions in journals that together form an intimate chronicle of life at the highest levels of American politics and culture in postwar America. This extraordinary volume contains his candid thoughts about the signal events of our time, from the Bay of Pigs to the devastating assassinations of the 1960s, from Vietnam to Watergate, and from the fall of the Soviet Union to Bush v. Gore. Filled with Schlesinger's trademark acerbic wit and tremendous insight, Journals is a fitting tribute to a most remarkable American life.

Journals: 1952-2000

Biographies & Memoirs

Schlesinger, Jr., Arthur M.

Historical

Penguin??Books

A history of the United States with an emphasis on public policy. Includes maps, photos, charts, and suggestions for further reading.

The National Experience: A History of the United States

History

MORGAN, Edmund S.

Stampp, Kenneth M.

McFeely, William S.

Blum, John M.

Americas

Wadsworth Publishing

Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly dust-toned & price-clipped dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 505 pages; Description: x, 505 p. 24 cm. Subjects: Presidents --United States --History. Executive power. Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Imperial Presidency

Leaders & Notable People

Popular Library

With a new introduction by the author The Vital Center is an eloquent and incisive defense of liberal democracy against its rivals to the left and to the right, communism and fascism. It shows how the failures of free society had led to the mass escape from freedom and sharpened the appeal of totalitarian solutions. It calls for a radical reconstruction of the democratic faith based on a realistic understanding of human limitation and frailty.

The Vital Center: The Politics Of Freedom

World

Da Capo Press

This book is a personal memoir by the author who served in the White House during the Kennedy years. As stated, "this book deals largely with foreign afairs and only occasionally records President Kennedy's intense feeling about his own country and his deep desire to improve the quality of and opportunity in the United States".

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House

Houghton, Mifflin Company

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., first revealed the sequences that governed American politics over the past two centuries in The Cycles of American History. In this updated edition, the prominent political historian continues to reflect on the "recurring struggle between pragmatism and idealism in the American soul" (Time). Faced with a new century, a new millennium, and social and technological revolutions, Schlesinger confronts the possibility of a revolution in American political cycles.

The Cycles Of American History

Business & Money

Economics

Mariner Books

Almanac Of American History

A panoramic study of the history of America details the exploration, settlement, wars, social and cultural evolution, and emergence as a superpower

Almanac of American History

Perigee Trade

The Age of Jackson

This volume, by the great American historian Arthur M. Schlesinger embraces the the Age of Andrew Jackson from its inception to its influence upon the history of our country. It captures the historical, cultural, economic and political life of the United States as it grew from Jefferson's day to the violent early eruptions of financial and industrial forces that threatened the basic principles of our constitutional democracy.

Signet

From two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., comes one of the most important and influential investigations of the American presidency. The Imperial Presidency traces the growth of presidential power over two centuries, from George Washington to George W. Bush, examining how it has both served and harmed the Constitution and what Americans can do about it in years to come. The book that gave the phrase “imperial presidency” to the language, this is a work of “substantial scholarship written with lucidity, charm, and wit” (The New Yorker).

The Imperial Presidency

From America's most celebrated living historian comes this "sprightly, straightforward account of the first third of an active and charmed life" (New York Times). Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. turns a studied eye on a personal past and reconstructs the history that has made him such an iconic figure for generations of readers. A LIFE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY offers rare and revealing access to both the private world of a great American writer and the fine-grained texture of the American century. Ranging from a fondly remembered childhood in the Midwest to a fascinating, storied academic and political life, this volume is an important addition to Schlesinger's body of work, "every bit as well written as anything Schlesinger has done" (Providence Sunday Journal) and "sure to be used by students of the times for years to come" (Boston Globe). "With style and humor and a master historian's deft blending of personal detail with epic events" (Wall Street Journal), Schlesinger evokes the struggles, the questions, the paradoxes, and the triumphs that shaped our era as only he can do.

A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950

Arts & Literature

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