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A thousand days; John F. Kennedy in the White House. / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
- Kennedy, John F.
- United States--Politics and government--1961-1963.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1087 pages, 1 unnumbered page. ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company ; Cambridge : The Riverside Press, 1965.
- Contents:
- Prologue: January 1961
- The road to the nomination
- Triumph in Los Angeles
- Campaign for the presidency
- Kennedy on the eve
- Gathering of the forces
- Prelude for the New Frontier
- Latin American journey
- The Alliance for Progress
- The hour of euphoria
- The Bay of Pigs
- Ordeal by fire
- New departures
- Legacy in Southeast Asia
- Encounter in Europe
- Trial in Berlin
- The reconstruction of diplomacy
- Peril in the skies
- No truce to terror
- New directions in the Third World
- Tangle in Southeast Asia
- Africa: the new adventure
- The world of diversity
- The country moving again
- The national agenda
- In the White House
- Down Pennsylvania Avenue
- The bully pulpit
- The politics of modernity
- Battle for the hemisphere
- Again Cuba
- The great turning
- The not so grand design
- Two Europes: De Gaulle and Kennedy
- The pursuit of peace
- The travail of equal rights
- The Negro revolution
- Autumn 1963.
- Notes:
- "This work is not a comprehensive history of the Kennedy Presidency. It is a personal memoir by one who served in the White House during the Kennedy years."--Foreword.
- Includes index.
- Pulitzer Prize, 1966.
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket (torn and tattered at spine) retained.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok New York January 1966".
- Potok Collection copy is "First Printing C".
- OCLC:
- 272137
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