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)
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The Turning Point
October 11, 2007
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History and National Stupidity
April 27, 2006
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The Making of a Mess
September 23, 2004
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
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Disgrace at Guantanamo
April 8, 2004
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Eyeless in Iraq
October 23, 2003
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
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The Democratic Autocrat
May 15, 2003
The Passions of Andrew Jackson
by Andrew Burstein
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On Henry Adams’s ‘Democracy’
March 27, 2003
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Anguish of a New York Liberal
February 14, 2002
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On JFK: An Interview with Isaiah Berlin
October 22, 1998
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Hope for Labor
February 1, 1996
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Talking to Cuba: An Exchange
January 12, 1995
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The Radical
February 11, 1993
Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy by George F. Kennan
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Castro’s Cuba: An Exchange
May 28, 1992
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Four Days with Fidel: A Havana Diary
March 26, 1992
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Aggressive Progressive
April 25, 1991
Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 18741952 by T.H. Watkins
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Celebrating Mencken
March 15, 1990
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The Ages of Jackson
December 7, 1989
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Getting FDR’s Ear
February 16, 1989
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, 19331940 by James S. Olson
Harry Hopkins: Ally of the Poor and Defender of Democracy
by George McJimsey
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Sheparditis
May 30, 1985
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‘Prich’: A New Deal Memoir
March 28, 1985
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The Election and After
August 16, 1984
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The Guiding Light
May 10, 1984
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I’m the Greatest!
April 12, 1984
Mayor by Edward I. Koch, with William Rauch
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Desperate Times
November 24, 1983
Roosevelt and the Isolationists, 1932-45 by Wayne S. Cole
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For the Record
November 10, 1983
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Washington at War
December 17, 1981
Washington Despatches 1941-1945: Weekly Political Reports from the British Embassy edited by H. G. Nicholas, introduction by Isaiah Berlin
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Master Illusionist
October 8, 1981
The Speculator: Bernard M. Baruch in Washington, 1917-1965 by Jordan A. Schwarz
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Death in Iran
August 13, 1981
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Cagney & the Cold War
May 15, 1980
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Who Started the Cold War? An Exchange
March 20, 1980
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Kennan vs. Bohlen?
January 24, 1980
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Bizarre Behavior
December 20, 1979
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Dubious Battles
December 6, 1979
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The Cold War Revisited
October 25, 1979
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
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Who’s Progressive?
June 14, 1979
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Hoover Makes a Comeback
March 8, 1979
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
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‘Veritas’ at Harvard: Another Exchange
July 14, 1977
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The “Excelsior” Affair
August 5, 1976
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Crisis in the NY Public Library
June 29, 1972
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The Quagmire Papers (Cont.)
December 16, 1971
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Eyeless in Indochina
October 21, 1971
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Protest
March 27, 1969
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P.S.
June 1, 1967
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Research
May 18, 1967
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Counter-Intelligence
October 20, 1966
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Left Field
February 11, 1965
Red Pawn: The Story of Noel Field by Flora Lewis
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End as a Man
December 12, 1963
George C. Marshall: Education of a General, 1880-1939 by Forrest C. Pogue, with the assistance of Gordon Harrison
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Letter
June 1, 1963
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Crosland’s Socialism
June 1, 1963
The Conservative Enemy by C.A.R. Crosland