Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian - Rilegato

Aldous, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0393244709 ISBN 13: 9780393244700

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2017

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

"The extent to which Schlesinger's father pulled strings for his son is one of the most intriguing revelations of Richard Aldous's new book. I generally find biographies of biographers by biographers a bore, but this is an exception." --Niall Ferguson, The Sunday Times

"What makes Aldous's book of more than incidental interest during the Trump years... is the perspective it provides on the current travails of American liberalism." --London Review of Books

"Richard Aldous's absorbing biography will surely be the definitive account of the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr." --Times Literary Supplement

L'autore:

Richard Aldous is a professor of history at Bard College, where he holds the Eugene Meyer Chair. He is the author and editor of eleven books, including The Lion and the Unicorn and Reagan and Thatcher. Aldous is a contributor to television and radio on both sides of the Atlantic, and his writing appears regularly in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Book Review, and the American Interest, where he is a contributing editor. He lives in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0393244709
• ISBN 13: 9780393244700
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 486