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Schlesinger The Imperial Historian
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Author : Richard Aldous
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2017-10-10
Schlesinger The Imperial Historian written by Richard Aldous and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The first major biography of preeminent historian and intellectual Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a defining figure in Kennedy’s White House. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007), known today as the architect of John F. Kennedy’s presidential legacy, blazed an extraordinary path from Harvard University to wartime 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, his best-selling and immensely influential record of the Kennedy administration, cemented Schlesinger’s place as one of the nation’s greatest political image makers and a key figure of the American intellectual elite—a peer and contemporary of Reinhold Niebuhr, Isaiah Berlin, and Adlai Stevenson. The first major biography of this defining figure in Kennedy’s 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 America’s ascent to global empire.
The Imperial Presidency
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Author : Arthur Meier Schlesinger
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2004
The Imperial Presidency written by Arthur Meier Schlesinger and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Executive power categories.
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The Imperial Presidency
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Author : Arthur Meier Schlesinger
language : en
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Release Date : 1973
The Imperial Presidency written by Arthur Meier Schlesinger and has been published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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
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Author : Arthur Meier Jr Schlesinger
language : en
Publisher: Mariner Books
Release Date : 2004-08-01
The Imperial Presidency written by Arthur Meier Jr Schlesinger and has been published by Mariner Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-01 with categories.
The Cycles Of American History
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Author : Arthur Meier Schlesinger
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 1999
The Cycles Of American History written by Arthur Meier Schlesinger and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Originally published: 1986. With new introd.
War And The American Presidency
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Author : Arthur Meier Schlesinger
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2005-10-17
War And The American Presidency written by Arthur Meier Schlesinger and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-17 with Political Science categories.
"Historical reflections that deftly challenge the political and ideological foundations of President Bush's foreign policy."--Charles A. Kupchan, New York Times In a book that brings a magisterial command of history to the most urgent of contemporary questions, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., explores the war in Iraq, the presidency, and the future of democracy. Describing unilateralism as "the oldest doctrine in American history," Schlesinger nevertheless warns of the dangers posed by the fatal turn in U.S. policy from deterrence and containment to preventive war. He writes powerfully about George W. Bush's expansion of presidential power, reminding us nevertheless of our country's distinguished legacy of patriotism through dissent in wartime. And in a new chapter written especially for the paperback edition, he examines the historical role of religion in American politics as a background for an assessment of Bush's faith-based presidency.
Mutual Contempt Lyndon Johnson Robert Kennedy And The Feud That Defined A Decade
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Author : Jeff Shesol
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1998-10-17
Mutual Contempt Lyndon Johnson Robert Kennedy And The Feud That Defined A Decade written by Jeff Shesol and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-10-17 with History categories.
"Mutual Contempt is at once a fascinating study in character and an illuminating meditation on the role character can play in shaping history."—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy loathed each other. Their antagonism, propelled by clashing personalities, contrasting views, and a deep, abiding animosity, would drive them to a bitterness so deep that even civil conversation was often impossible. Played out against the backdrop of the turbulent 1960s, theirs was a monumental political battle that would shape federal policy, fracture the Democratic party, and have a lasting effect on the politics of our times. Drawing on previously unexamined recordings and documents, as well as memoirs, biographies, and scores of personal interviews, Jeff Shesol weaves the threads of this epic story into a compelling narrative that reflects the impact of LBJ and RFK's tumultuous relationship on politics, civil rights, the war on poverty, and the war in Vietnam. As Publishers Weekly noted, "This is indispensable reading for both experts on the period and newcomers to the history of that decade." "An exhaustive and fascinating history. . . . Shesol's grasp of the era's history is sure, his tale often entertaining, and his research awesome."—Russell Baker, New York Review of Books "Thorough, provocative. . . . The story assumes the dimensions of a great drama played out on a stage too vast to comprehend."—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1997 Critic's Choice) "This is the most gripping political book of recent years."—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Journals 1952 2000
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Author : Arthur Schlesinger
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2014-07-03
Journals 1952 2000 written by Arthur Schlesinger and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Frank, revelatory, suffused with wit and humanity, Arthur Schlesinger Jr's journals offer an intimate history of post-war America, from his days on Adlai Stevenson's campaign team to his years in JFK and RFK's inner circle, through to the election of George W. Bush. They contain candid reminiscences of the defining events of our time - including the Bay of Pigs, the devastating assassinations of the 1960s, Vietnam, Watergate, the fall of the Soviet Union, and Bush vs Gore. They also offer an extraordinary window into the lives of the remarkable range of politicians, intellectuals, writers, and actors who were his friends - from the Kennedys to Kissinger and the Clintons, from Norman Mailer to Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe. Together Schlesinger's journals form an astonishingly vivid portrait of American politics and culture in the second half of the twentieth century - one that only a man who knew everyone, and missed nothing, could provide.
Schlesinger
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Schlesinger written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with categories.
A World Trimmed With Fur
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Author : Jonathan Schlesinger
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2017-01-11
A World Trimmed With Fur written by Jonathan Schlesinger and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-11 with History categories.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers. Historians of China have described this process in stark terms: pristine borderlands became breadbaskets. Yet Manchu and Mongolian archives reveal a different story. Well before homesteaders arrived, wild objects from the far north became part of elite fashion, and unprecedented consumption had exhausted the region's most precious resources. In A World Trimmed with Fur, Jonathan Schlesinger uses these diverse archives to reveal how Qing rule witnessed not the destruction of unspoiled environments, but their invention. Qing frontiers were never pristine in the nineteenth century—pearlers had stripped riverbeds of mussels, mushroom pickers had uprooted the steppe, and fur-bearing animals had disappeared from the forest. In response, the court turned to "purification;" it registered and arrested poachers, reformed territorial rule, and redefined the boundary between the pristine and the corrupted. Schlesinger's resulting analysis provides a framework for rethinking the global invention of nature.