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. Written by Richard Aldous. Hardcover;496 pages.

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