Authors:Bonnie Hinman, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Arthur Meie
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
Keywords: colonial, leaders, astronomer, mathematician, banneker, american, benjamin
Number of Pages: 79
Published: 2000-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0791056910
ISBN-13: 9780791056912

Author: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: times, kennedy, robert
Number of Pages: 1088
Published: 2002-06-03
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0618219285
ISBN-13: 9780618219285

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., chronicles the short life of the Kennedy family’s second presidential hopeful in "a story that leaves the reader aching for what cannot be recaptured" (Miami Herald). Schlesinger’s account vividly recalls the forces that shaped Robert Kennedy, from his position as the third son of a powerful Irish Catholic political clan to his concern for issues of social justice in the turbulent 1960s. ROBERT KENNEDY AND HIS TIMES is "a picture of a deeply compassionate man hiding his vulnerability, drawn to the underdogs and the unfortunates in society by his life exp

Author: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: house, kennedy, john, days, thousand
Number of Pages: 1120
Published: 2002-06-03
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0618219277
ISBN-13: 9780618219278

As special assistant to the president, Arthur Schlesinger witnessed firsthand the politics and personalities that influenced the now legendary Kennedy administration. Schlesinger"s close relationship with JFK, as a politician and as a friend, has resulted in this authoritative yet intimate account in which the president "walks through the pages, from first to last, alert, alive, amused and amusing" (John Kenneth Galbraith). A THOUSAND DAYS is "at once a masterly literary achievement and a work of major historical significance" (New York Times).

Author: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: history, american, cycles
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1999-06-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0395957931
ISBN-13: 9780395957936

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., first revealed the sequences that governed American politics over the past two centuries in The Cycles of American History. In this updated edition, the prominent political historian continues to reflect on the "recurring struggle between pragmatism and idealism in the American soul" (Time). Faced with a new century, a new millennium, and social and technological revolutions, Schlesinger confronts the possibility of a revolution in American political cycles.

Author: Jr. Arthur M. Schlesinger
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: presidency, imperial
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2004-08-12
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0618420010
ISBN-13: 9780618420018

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., traces the growth of presidential power over two centuries, from George Washington to George W. Bush, examining how it has both served and harmed the Constitution and what Americans can do about it in years to come. The book that gave the phrase "imperial presidency" to the language, this is a significant work of historical scholarship.

Author: Arthur M. "Schlesinger Jr."
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: iii, vol, volume, roosevelt, upheaval, politics
Number of Pages: 768
Published: 2003-07-09
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0618340874
ISBN-13: 9780618340873

The Politics of Upheaval, 1935-1936, volume three of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr."s Age of Roosevelt series, concentrates on the turbulent concluding years of Franklin D. Roosevelt"s first term. A measure of economic recovery revived political conflict and emboldened FDR"s critics to denounce "that man in the White house." To his left were demagogues — Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and Dr. Townsend. To his right were the champions of the old order — ex-president Herbert Hoover, the American Liberty League, and the august Supreme Court. For a time

Author: Arthur M. Schlesinger
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: freedom, politics, center, vital
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 1997-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1560009896
ISBN-13: 9781560009894

First published nearly fifty years ago, Puli tzer Prize-winner Arthur M. Schlesinger’’s classic text exami nes the politics of centrism, and argues for a resurgence in the middle way in American politics. ’