Volume 47, Number 20 · December 21, 2000
The Age of Schlesinger
By James Chace
A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950
by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Houghton Mifflin, 557 pp., $28.95
'History,' wrote the British historian C.V. Wedgwood, 'is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.' Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s engrossing autobiography of his coming of age as a man, as a historian, and as a political activist tells the remarkable story of how, in an age of competing ideologies, he emerged as a paladin of anti-Communist liberalism.
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