{"product_id":"schlesinger","title":"Schlesinger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first major biography of preeminent historian and intellectual Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a defining figure in Kennedy's White House.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007), known today as the architect of John F. Kennedy’s presidential legacy, blazed an extraordinary path from Harvard University to wartime London to the West Wing. The son of a pioneering historian—and a two-time Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner in his own right—Schlesinger redefined the art of presidential biography. \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Days\u003c\/i\u003e, his best-selling and immensely influential record of the Kennedy administration, cemented Schlesinger's place as one of the nation's greatest political image makers and a key figure of the American intellectual elite¯a peer and contemporary of Reinhold Niebuhr, Isaiah Berlin, and Adlai Stevenson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first major biography of this defining figure in Kennedy's Camelot, \u003ci\u003eSchlesinger: The Imperial Historian\u003c\/i\u003e presents a dramatic life and career set against the backdrop of the American Century. Biographer Richard Aldous draws on oral history, rarely seen archival documents, and the official Schlesinger papers to craft a portrait of the incandescently brilliant and controversial historian who framed America’s ascent to global empire.\u003cbr\u003e8 pages of illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Aldous","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42851240640573,"sku":"9780393244700","price":44.96,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780393244700_515afa8e-bcdb-411d-802f-251d6dfa8c2c.jpg?v=1767073414","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/schlesinger","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}