Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007), known today as the architect of John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy-and the myth of Camelot-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 bestselling record of the Kennedy administration, remains immensely influential and has cemented Schlesinger's place as one of the nation's greatest political image makers.
In this vivid account of Schlesinger's life and career, biographer Richard Aldous draws on oral history, rarely seen archival documents, and the official Schlesinger papers to craft an invaluable portrait of a brilliant and controversial historian who framed America's rise to global empire. Schlesinger promises to transform our understanding of one of the key figures of the twentieth-century American intellectual elite.
In this vivid account of Schlesinger's life and career, biographer Richard Aldous draws on oral history, rarely seen archival documents, and the official Schlesinger papers to craft an invaluable portrait of a brilliant and controversial historian who framed America's rise to global empire. Schlesinger promises to transform our understanding of one of the key figures of the twentieth-century American intellectual elite.
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About the Author:
Richard Aldous 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.
Review:
“[Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.] has found in Aldous an agreeably judicious biographer. ... Aldous gracefully balances an appreciation for his subject’s talents as a writer of narratives and speeches with an acknowledgment of his shortcomings as a political analyst and aide.”
- The New York Times Book Review
“[A] very readable distillation of a long and fruitful life.”
- The Atlantic
“As a biographer, Mr. Aldous’s prose is cool and even-handed. ... [Schlesinger] is especially good on the inner conflicts of presidential politics.”
- The Wall Street Journal
“[A] convincing portrait, rendered with skill and sensitivity, sympathetic toward its subject while capturing the quirks that made him, in the words of one contemporary, ‘so Arthurish.’”
- The Washington Post
“[A] compellingly narrated and well-researched biography.”
- The Nation
“Aldous writes with a verve and clarity that matches Schlesinger’s ... his book is likely to long endure as the standard work on its gifted title character.”
- James M. Banner, Jr., The Weekly Standard
“The triumph of Richard Aldous’s new book is that it separates the myth from the reality, explaining both the seemingly inexorable rise of Schlesinger and how he contributed so much to the subsequent mythologising of the Kennedy era.”
- The Irish Times
“Richard Aldous’s Schlesinger is a deeply researched and skillfully written biography of a brilliant, scheming, perceptive and highly-partisan figure who believed in writing “useful history” to promote liberal causes and hoped to affect history by his own participation in American politics.”
- Curtis Wilkie, author of The Fall of the House of Zeus
“In this elegant biography, Richard Aldous reveals the fascinating story of the ‘knee-pants genius’ who won his first Pulitzer Prize at the age of twenty-eight and went on to become the Kennedys’ court historian. Aldous presents an intimate portrait of a man of thought and a man of action living at the ‘vital center’ of Cold War America.””
- David Reynolds, author of The Long Shadow
“In his marvelous, moving, and unsparing Schlesinger, Aldous brings us the brilliant, ambitious, colorful, sometimes maddening Schlesinger in full flower―with all of his stunning professional triumphs and glaring personal failures. A noteworthy achievement.”
- Lawrence J. Haas, author of Harry and Arthur
- The New York Times Book Review
“[A] very readable distillation of a long and fruitful life.”
- The Atlantic
“As a biographer, Mr. Aldous’s prose is cool and even-handed. ... [Schlesinger] is especially good on the inner conflicts of presidential politics.”
- The Wall Street Journal
“[A] convincing portrait, rendered with skill and sensitivity, sympathetic toward its subject while capturing the quirks that made him, in the words of one contemporary, ‘so Arthurish.’”
- The Washington Post
“[A] compellingly narrated and well-researched biography.”
- The Nation
“Aldous writes with a verve and clarity that matches Schlesinger’s ... his book is likely to long endure as the standard work on its gifted title character.”
- James M. Banner, Jr., The Weekly Standard
“The triumph of Richard Aldous’s new book is that it separates the myth from the reality, explaining both the seemingly inexorable rise of Schlesinger and how he contributed so much to the subsequent mythologising of the Kennedy era.”
- The Irish Times
“Richard Aldous’s Schlesinger is a deeply researched and skillfully written biography of a brilliant, scheming, perceptive and highly-partisan figure who believed in writing “useful history” to promote liberal causes and hoped to affect history by his own participation in American politics.”
- Curtis Wilkie, author of The Fall of the House of Zeus
“In this elegant biography, Richard Aldous reveals the fascinating story of the ‘knee-pants genius’ who won his first Pulitzer Prize at the age of twenty-eight and went on to become the Kennedys’ court historian. Aldous presents an intimate portrait of a man of thought and a man of action living at the ‘vital center’ of Cold War America.””
- David Reynolds, author of The Long Shadow
“In his marvelous, moving, and unsparing Schlesinger, Aldous brings us the brilliant, ambitious, colorful, sometimes maddening Schlesinger in full flower―with all of his stunning professional triumphs and glaring personal failures. A noteworthy achievement.”
- Lawrence J. Haas, author of Harry and Arthur
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- PublisherHighBridge Audio
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1681688530
- ISBN 13 9781681688534
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