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Informationen zum Autor Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. was a renowned American historian, social critic, and political figure. He twice won both the Pulitzer Prize, for The Age of Jackson and A Thousand Days , and the National Book Award, also for A Thousand Days and for Robert Kennedy and His Times . Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. died in 2007. Klappentext 'Hard to put down...barely a page passes without some encounter with the great and good... The writing has all the clarity, and the argument all the precision, of a foremost practitioner of the historical art. It is the production of a man at the top of his game.' Dominic Sandbrook, Literary Review Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, stood at the heart of post-war American political and cultural life in the second half of the twentieth century. His journals include candid reminiscences of the defining events of our time - the Bay of Pigs, the devastating assassinations of the 1960s, Vietnam, Watergate, the fall of the Soviet Union, and Bush vs Gore, among others. They also offer a window into the lives of the remarkable range of politicians, intellectuals, writers, and actors who were his friends - from the Kennedys and Kissinger to the Clintons, from Norman Mailer to Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe. Journals: 1952-2000 is an astonishingly vivid portrait of America - one that only a man who knew everyone, and missed nothing, could provide. 'Today, Schlesinger has never seemed more relevant... The elegance, wit and learning of these journals make them worth reading for sheer pleasure alone. But for the light they throw on the liberal experience, they have become required reading.' Richard Aldous, Irish Times 'This arch, irresistibly revealing book manages to be both showstopping and doorstopping, what with its vast range of subject matter and unfettered private sniping.' Janet Maslin, New York Times £14.99 Autobiography [9781843549796] www.atlantic-books.co.uk 'Completely compelling... A mesmerizing read.' Antonia Fraser Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. stood at the heart of post-war American political and cultural life - he knew most of the prominent political, cultural, and intellectual figures of the last fifty years. As these journals demonstrate, he was a master historian who enjoyed an extraordinary eyewitness vantage on history as it happened. Zusammenfassung Offer a history of post-war America, from the author's 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....
