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———. Journals: 1952–2000. Edited by Andrew Schlesinger and Stephen Schlesinger. New York: Penguin, 2008.
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———. The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Edited by Andrew Schlesinger and Stephen Schlesinger. New York: Random House, 2013.
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———. Paths to the Present. New York: Macmillan, 1964.
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———. Email to Richard Aldous. Personal email. October 26, 2016.
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———. I Remember: A Life of Politics, Painting and People. Cambridge, MA: TidePool Press, 2012.
———. Snatched from Oblivion: A Cambridge Memoir. Boston: Little, Brown, 1979.
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-with-culture.html?pagewanted=all.
ILLUSTRATIONS
“Think of school as an opportunity for future advancement”: At Phillips Exeter Academy (class of 1933). (Phillips Exeter Academy Archives, Class of 1945 Library)
The Schlesinger clan, 1950s. Back row (left to right): Arthur Jr., Ban and Tom (AMS Jr.’s brother and sister-in-law), Marian (AMS Jr.’s wife), Stephen (AMS Jr.’s son). Sitting (left to right): Susan (Tom’s daughter), Elizabeth (AMS Jr.’s mother), Christina (AMS Jr.’s daughter), Katharine (AMS Jr.’s daughter), Arthur Sr., and Andrew (AMS Jr.’s son). (Steve Schlesinger)
“I am betting on you!”: With Arthur Sr., Harvard, 1958. (Burt Glinn / Magnum Photos)
“History depends on who writes it”: With John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office, July 1962. (Cecil Stoughton / JFK Library)
The darker side of Camelot? With Bobby Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, and JFK at a birthday party for the president in New York, May 1962. (Cecil Stoughton / JFK Library)
“As I was standing on the side of the crowd, a man brushed by. It was Lyndon Johnson.” The new president addresses the nation at Andrews Field, November 22, 1963, with Schlesinger, far left of picture (Cecil Stoughton / JFK Library)
“By far the hardest thing I have ever tried”: in his D.C. office making final changes to the manuscript of A Thousand Days, July 1965. (Arnold Newman / Getty Images)
With Jackie Kennedy, January 1967. “It takes wings,” she wrote of A Thousand Days, “and when you read it—Jack is alive again.” (Bettmann / Getty Images)
Alexandra and Arthur Schlesinger at the second annual Robert F. Kennedy Pro-Celebrity Tennis Tournament, 1973. (Ron Galella / Getty Images)
Pundit: Schlesinger making his point during the taping of The David Susskind Show, 1979. (Bettmann / Getty Images)
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