Volume 33, Number 17 · November 6, 1986

In the American Mirror

By George F. Kennan
The Cycles of American History
by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Houghton Mifflin, 498 pp., $22.95

The author of this book requires no introduction to the readers of The New York Review. The name of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., historian, essayist, lifelong student of American political institutions, has appeared too often in this journal, as that of either reviewer or reviewed, to need further identification here.



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