The first conversation : John F. Kennedy's presidential aspirations ; 1956 vice-presidential nomination ; Fight for control of Massachusetts delegation ; 1953-54 Boston politics ; Early married life ; ...

In the latest volume of Arthur Schlesinger's American Presidents series, Widmer (Young America) paints a brief but elegant portrait of our eighth president, who, Widmer says, created the modern ...

NEW YORK — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and “court philosopher” of the Kennedy administration who remained a proud liberal even as others dared not use the word, has ...

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It was more than a half century ago when liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. first warned of “The Imperial Presidency.” In his definitive book, first published in 1973 in the backdrop of the ...