Schlesinger : the imperial historian / Richard Aldous.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aldous, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007.

Schlesinger, Arthur M.

Historians--United States--Biography.

Historians.

United States.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.

Local Subjects:

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 486 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Imperial historian

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]

Summary:

"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"--Google Books.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-468) and index.

ISBN:

9780393244700

0393244709

OCLC:

971361165