Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 2007)
From the Review
October 11, 2007: The Turning Point
April 27, 2006: History and National Stupidity
September 23, 2004: The Making of a Mess
Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet by James Mann
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies by James Bamford
After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order by Emmanuel Todd, translated from the French by C. Jon Delogu, with aforeword by Michael Lind
April 8, 2004: Disgrace at Guantanamo (letter)
October 23, 2003: Eyeless in Iraq
America Unbound: The Bush Revolutionin Foreign Policy by Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay
The George W. Bush Presidency: An Early Assessment edited by Fred I. Greenstein
May 15, 2003: The Democratic Autocrat
The Passions of Andrew Jackson by Andrew Burstein
March 27, 2003: On Henry Adams's 'Democracy'
February 14, 2002: Anguish of a New York Liberal
October 22, 1998: On JFK: An Interview with Isaiah Berlin
February 1, 1996: Hope for Labor (letter)
January 12, 1995: Talking to Cuba: An Exchange
February 11, 1993: The Radical
Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy by George F. Kennan
May 28, 1992: Castro's Cuba: An Exchange
March 26, 1992: Four Days with Fidel: A Havana Diary
April 25, 1991: Aggressive Progressive
Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874–1952 by T.H. Watkins
March 15, 1990: Celebrating Mencken (letter)
December 7, 1989: The Ages of Jackson
February 16, 1989: Getting FDR's Ear
Dealers and Dreamers: A New Look at the New Deal by Joseph P. Lash
Liberal: Adolf A. Berle and the Vision of an American Era by Jordan A. Schwarz
Saving Capitalism: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New Deal, 1933–1940 by James S. Olson
Harry Hopkins: Ally of the Poor and Defender of Democracy by George McJimsey
May 30, 1985: Sheparditis (letter)
March 28, 1985: 'Prich': A New Deal Memoir
August 16, 1984: The Election and After
May 10, 1984: The Guiding Light (letter)
April 12, 1984: I'm the Greatest!
Mayor by Edward I. Koch, with William Rauch
November 24, 1983: Desperate Times
Roosevelt and the Isolationists, 1932-45 by Wayne S. Cole
November 10, 1983: For the Record (letter)
December 17, 1981: Washington at War
Washington Despatches 1941-1945: Weekly Political Reports from the British Embassy edited by H. G. Nicholas, introduction by Isaiah Berlin
October 8, 1981: Master Illusionist
The Speculator: Bernard M. Baruch in Washington, 1917-1965 by Jordan A. Schwarz
August 13, 1981: Death in Iran (letter)
May 15, 1980: Cagney & the Cold War (letter)
March 20, 1980: Who Started the Cold War? An Exchange
January 24, 1980: Kennan Vs. Bohlen? (letter)
December 20, 1979: Bizarre Behavior (letter)
December 6, 1979: Dubious Battles (letter)
October 25, 1979: The Cold War Revisited
Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security State by Daniel Yergin
Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 by Robert Dallek
Russia and the United States by N.V. Sivachev, by N.N. Yakovlev
Russia's Road to the Cold War: Diplomacy, Warfare, and the Politics of Communism, 1941-1945 by Vojtech Mastny
Stalin Embattled, 1943-1948 by William O. McCagg Jr.
The Communist Movement from Comintern to Cominform by Fernando Claudin, translated by Brian Pearce, by Francis MacDonagh
The American Non-Policy Towards Eastern Europe, 1943-1947: Universalism in an Area not of Essential Interest to the United States Press by Geir Lundestad
June 14, 1979: Who's Progressive? (letter)
March 8, 1979: Hoover Makes a Comeback
Herbert Hoover: A Public Life by David Burner
George W. Norris: The Triumph of a Progressive, 1933-1944 by Richard Lowitt
"Young Bob" La Follette: A Biography of Robert M. La Follette, Jr. 1895-1953 by Patrick J. Maney
July 14, 1977: 'Veritas' at Harvard: Another Exchange
August 5, 1976: The "Excelsior" Affair (letter)
June 29, 1972: Crisis in the NY Public Library (letter)
December 16, 1971: The Quagmire Papers (Cont.)
October 21, 1971: Eyeless in Indochina
March 27, 1969: Protest (letter)
June 1, 1967: P.S. (letter)
May 18, 1967: Research (letter)
October 20, 1966: Counter-Intelligence (letter)
February 11, 1965: Left Field
Red Pawn: The Story of Noel Field by Flora Lewis
December 12, 1963: End as a Man
George C. Marshall: Education of a General, 1880-1939 by Forrest C. Pogue, with the assistance of Gordon Harrison
June 1, 1963: Letter (letter)
June 1, 1963: Crosland's Socialism
The Conservative Enemy by C.A.R. Crosland
Books by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
James K. Polk (2003)
Woodrow Wilson: The American Presidents (2003)
A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 (2000)
The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom (1998)
The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (1998)
The Disuniting of America (1991)
Is the Cold War Over? (1990)
The Cycles of American History (1986)
Creativity in Statecraft (1983)
Robert Kennedy and His Times (1978)
Congress Investigates: A Documented History, 1792-1974 (1975)
The Dynamics of World Power: A Documentary History of United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1973 (1973)
History of U.S. Political Parties (1973)
The Imperial Presidency (1973)
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (1971)
History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-1968. (1971)
The Politics of Upheaval (1960)
The Coming of the New Deal (1958)