Schlesinger

by Richard Aldous

  Rutland, Robert Allen, ed. Clio’s Favorites: Leading Historians of the United States, 1945–2000. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000.

  Sabine, George H. Review of The Vital Center, by Arthur M. Schle­singer Jr. The Philosophical Review 59, no. 2 (1950): 246–249. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2181509. DOI: 10.2307/2181509.

  Sacher, John. Review of Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824–1854, by Jonathan H. Earle. Indiana Magazine of History 101, no. 4 (2005): 383–384. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27792675.

  Salinger, Pierre. With Kennedy. New York: Doubleday, 1966.

  Sandford, Christopher. Harold and Jack: The Remarkable Friendship of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and President Kennedy. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2014.

  Santmyer, Helen Hooven. Ohio Town: A Portrait of Xenia. New Yorker: Harper, 1961.

  Saunders, Frances Stonor. Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War. London: Granta, 1999.

  Schaffer, Howard B. Chester Bowles: New Dealer in the Cold War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

  Schle­singer, Alexandra Emmet. Interview with Richard Aldous. Personal interview. June 17, 2015.

  Schle­singer, Andrew. Interview with Richard Aldous. Personal interview. March 9, 2014.

  ———. Veritas: Harvard College and the American Experience. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2005.

  Schle­singer, Arthur M., Jr. “Orestes Brownson: An American Marxist Before Marx.” The Sewanee Review 47, no. 3 (1939): 317–323. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27535562.

  ———. “The Problem of Richard Hildreth.” New England Quarterly 13, no. 2 (1940): 223–245.

  ———. The Age of Jackson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1945.

  ———. “The U.S. Communist Party.” Life. July 29, 1946.

  ———. “The Supreme Court: 1947.” Fortune. January 3, 1947.

  ———. “What is Loyalty? A Difficult Question.” New York Times. November 2, 1947. https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/26/specials/schlesinger-difficult.html.

  ———. “Not Left, Not Right, But a Vital Center.” New York Times. April 4, 1948. https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/26/specials/schlesinger-centermag.html.

  ———. The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949.

  ———. “The Future of Liberalism: The Challenge of Abundance.” Reporter. May 3, 1956.

  ———. The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919–1933: The Age of Roo­se­velt, vol. 1 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957).

  ———. The Coming of the New Deal, 1933–1935: The Age of Roo­se­velt, vol. 2 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958).

  ———. The Politics of Upheaval, 1935–1936: The Age of Roo­se­velt, vol. 3 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960).

  ———. Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any Difference? (New York: Macmillan, 1960).

  ———. “The Historian and History.” Foreign Affairs (April 1963). https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1963-04-01/historian-and-history.

  ———. A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.

  ———. “A Thousand Days: The First Close Portrait of John Kennedy.” Life. July 16, 1965.

  ———. “A Father Remembered.” Saturday Review. November 27, 1965.

  ———. “Origins of the Gold War.” Foreign Affairs 46 (1967): 22–52.

  ———. “The Vital Center Reconsidered.” Encounter. September 1970, 89–93.

  ———. “The Historian as Participant.” Daedalus 100, no. 2 (1971): 339–358. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20024007.

  ———. The Imperial Presidency. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.

  ———. Robert Kennedy and His Times. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978.

  ———. “The Political Galbraith.” Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics 7, no. 1 (1984): 7–17. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4537860.

  ———. “Arthur M. Schle­singer, Sr.: New Viewpoints in American History Revisited.” The New England Quarterly 61, no. 4 (1988).

  ———. “The Ages of Jackson.” New York Review of Books. December 7, 1989. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1989/12/07/the-ages-of-jackson/.

  ———. “Reinhold Niebuhr’s Long Shadow.” New York Times. June 22, 1992. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/22/opinion/reinhold-niebuhr-s-long-shadow.html.

  ———. The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998.

  ———. The Cycles of American History. Boston: Mariner Books, 1986; New York: Mariner Books, 1999.

  ———. A Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917–1950. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

  ———. War and the American Presidency. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005.

  ———. “Forgetting Reinhold Niebuhr.” New York Times. September 18, 2005. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/books/review/forgetting-reinhold-niebuhr.html?_r=0.

  ———. “History’s Folly.” New York Times. January 1, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/01/opinion/01schlesinger.html.

  ———. Journals: 1952–2000. Edited by Andrew Schle­singer and Stephen Schle­singer. New York: Penguin, 2008.

  ———. “The Causes of the Civil War.” In The Politics of Hope and The Bitter Heritage: American Liberalism in the 1960s. Edited by Sean Wilentz. Princeton, NJ: Prince­ton University Press, 2008.

  ———. Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy: Interviews with Arthur M. Schle­singer Jr. Edited by Michael Beschloss. New York: Hyperion, 2011.

  ———. The Letters of Arthur Schle­singer, Jr. Edited by Andrew Schle­singer and Stephen Schle­singer. New York: Random House, 2013.

  Schle­singer, Arthur M., Sr. In Retrospect: The History of a Historian. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1963.

  ———. New Viewpoints in American History. New York: Macmillan, 1922. https://archive.org/details/newviewpointsina00sch.

  ———. Paths to the Present. New York: Macmillan, 1964.

  Schle­singer, Christina. Interview with Richard Aldous. Personal interview. April 16, 2014.

  ———. Email to Richard Aldous. Personal email. October 26, 2016.

  Schle­singer, Marian Cannon. Interview with Richard Aldous. Personal interview. March 9, 2014.

  ———. I Remember: A Life of Politics, Painting and People. Cambridge, MA: TidePool Press, 2012.

  ———. Snatched from Oblivion: A Cambridge Memoir. Boston: Little, Brown, 1979.

  Schle­singer, Robert. “Arthur Schle­singer Jr.’s Not-So-Secret Career as a Spy.” US News & World Report. August 20, 2008.

  ———. White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008.

  Schle­singer, Stephen. Interview with Richard Aldous. Personal interview. January 17, 2014.

  “Schle­singer Captures National Book Award.” Harvard Crimson. March 17, 1966. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1966/3/17/schlesinger-captures-national-book-award-parthur/.

  “Schle­singer Given Briggs Prize for History 1 Essay.” Harvard Crimson. March 7, 1935. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1935/3/7/schlesinger-given-briggs-prize-for-history.

  Schneider, Herbert W. Review of Orestes Brownson: Yankee, Radical, Catholic, by Theodore Maynard. Church History 13, no. 4 (1944): 322–325. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3160246.

  Schultz, Kevin. Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties. New York: W. W. Norton, 2015.

  Schwartz, Madeline. “Sesquicentennial Soirée: Harvard Advocate alumni take stock.” The Harvard Magazine. September/October, 2016. http://harvardmagazine.com/2016/09/sesquicentennial-soiree.

  Seaborg, Glenn T. Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Test Ban. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.

  Selverstone, Marc J. A Companion to John F. Kennedy. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2014.

  Semple, Robert B., Jr. “A Historian’s Valedictory.” New York Times. March 2, 2007. http://archive.boston.com/ae/theater_a
rts/articles/2007/03/01/arthur_schlesinger_remembered.

  Severo, Richard. “Marieta Tree, Former U.N. Delegate, Dies at 74.” New York Times. August 16, 1991. http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/16/nyregion/marietta-tree-former-un-delegate-dies-at-74.html.

  Shannon, William. “Controversial Historian of the Age of Kennedy.” New York Times. November 21, 1965.

  Shaw, John T. JFK in the Senate: Pathway to the Presidency. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

  Smith, Amanda, ed. Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy. New York: Viking, 2001.

  Smith, Culver H. Review of The Age of Jackson, by Arthur M. Schle­singer Jr. The Journal of Southern History 12, no. 1 (1946): 123–126. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2197735. DOI: 10.2307/2197735.

  Smith, Jean Edward. Eisenhower in War and Peace. New York: Random House, 2012.

  ———. FDR. New York: Random House, 2008.

  Smith, Jordan Michael. “The Philosopher of the Post-9/11 Era.” Slate. October 17, 2011. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2011/10/john_diggins_why_niebuhr_now_reviewed_how_did_he_become_the_phil.html.

  Sorensen, Ted. Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History. New York: Harper, 2008.

  Sorensen, Theodore C. Interview by Carl Kaysen. “Theodore C. Sorensen Oral History Interview—JFK #6, 5/20/1964.” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKOH-TCS-06.aspx.

  ———. Kennedy. New York: Harper and Row, 1965.

  Sparrow, James T., William J. Novak, and Stephen W. Sawyer, eds. Boundaries of the State in U.S. History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

  Star, Alexander. “His Liberal Imagination.” Q&A with Arthur M. Schle­singer. New York Times. Nov. 26, 2000. http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/26/reviews/001126.26int.html.

  Steele, John L. “Two Books By and About Stevenson.” Review of The New America, by Adlai E. Stevenson. New Republic. September 2, 1957.

  Stegner, Wallace. The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto. New York: Doubleday, 1974.

  Stern, Sheldon M. The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myth versus Reality. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012.

  Stoll, Ira. JFK: Conservative. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

  Strand, William. “Senate Kills Dry Rider to 18 Year Draft.” Chicago Tribune. October 23, 1942. http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1942/10/23/page/1/article/senate-kills-dry-rider-to-18-year-draft.

  Sullivan, Patricia. “Gilbert Harrison, 92, Longtime Editor of New Republic.” Washington Post. January 8, 2008. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/07/AR2008010703193.html.

  Swaim, Barton. “Sifting the Wheat from the Chaff.” Review of Major Works on Religion and Politics, by Reinhold Niebuhr. Wall Street Journal. June 26, 2015. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB11292601245819683363204581056111883885634.

  Swisher, Carl Brent. Review of The Age of Jackson, by Arthur M. Schle­singer Jr. The New England Quarterly 19, no. 1 (1946): 122–123. http://www.jstor.org/stable/361216. DOI:10.2307/361216.

  Tanenhaus, Sam. Whittaker Chambers. New York: Random House, 1997.

  Taylor, P. A. “Samuel Eliot Morison: Historian.” Journal of American Studies 11, no. 1 (1977).

  Thistlethwaite, Frank. Review of The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919–1933, by Arthur M. Schle­singer Jr. The English Historical Review 73 (1958): 329–331. http://www.jstor.org/stable/556989.

  Thomas, Robert Jr. “Nixons Reported to Have Bought East Side House.” New York Times. October 5, 1979. http://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/05/archives/nixons-reported-to-have-bought-east-side-house-drop-condominium.html.

  Tinsley, James A. Review of The Coming of the New Deal, 1933–1935, by Arthur M. Schle­singer Jr. The Journal of Southern History 25, no. 3 (1959): 407–409. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2954784. DOI:10.2307/2954784.

  Troy, Tevi. Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians? Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.

  Turner, Frederick Jackson. Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner: “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” and Other Essays. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994.

  “United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918.” FamilySearch. Citing Columbus City no 4, Ohio, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration; FHL microfilm 1,832,032. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K6FN-D4N.

  Vaughn, Stephen. Reagan in Hollywood: Movies and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

  Walton, Calder. Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War, and the Twilight of Empire. New York: Overlook Press, 2013.

  Ward, Timothy Jack. “Changes to Union Divide Harvard.” New York Times. February 15, 1996. http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/15/garden/changes-to-union-divide-harvard.html.

  Warren, Sidney. Review of The Imperial Presidency, by Arthur M. Schle­singer Jr. Journal of American History 61, no. 4 (1975): 1156–1157. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1890722.

  Washburn, Wilcomb E. “Samuel Eliot Morison, Historian.” The William and Mary Quarterly 36, no. 3 (July 1979).

  “What Are the Outstanding Books of 1945?” ALA Bulletin 39, no. 12 (1945): 509–510. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25692238.

  White, Theodore H. In Search of History. New York: Harper and Row, 1978.

  ———. The Making of the President: 1960. New York: Harper Perennial, 2009.

  “White Paper on Cuba.” New York Times. April 5, 1961.

  Whitfield, Stephen J. The Culture of the Cold War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

  Wilentz, Sean. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005.

  Wills, Garry. “Fierce in His Loyalties and Enmities.” Review of Robert Kennedy and His Times, by Arthur M. Schle­singer Jr. New York Times. November 12, 1978. http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/26/specials/schlesinger-robert.html.

  ———. “A Pattern of Rising Power.” Review of The Imperial Presidency, by Arthur M. Schle­singer Jr. New York Times. November 18, 1973. http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/26/specials/schlesinger-imperial.html.

  Wilmer, Ted, ed. Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John. F. Kennedy. New York: Hyperion, 2012.

  Winkler, Allan M. The Politics of Propaganda: The Office of War Information, 1942–1945. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1978.

  Winks, Robin. Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939–1961. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987.

  Wolfensberger, Donald R. “The Return of the Imperial Presidency?” The Wilson Quarterly 26, no. 2 (2002): 36–41. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40260602.

  Wollons, Roberta. Review of Before Head Start: The Iowa Station and America’s Children, by Hamilton Cravens. Isis 85, no. 4 (December 1994). http://www.jstor.org/stable/235351.

  Woods, Randall Bennett. Fulbright. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

  Woolner, David, and Jack Thompson. Progressivism in America: Past, Present, and Future. Corby, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015.

  “Woolworth Building.” Cass Gilbert Society. http://www.cassgilbertsociety.org/works/nyc-woolworth-bldg.

  Wreszin, Michael. “Arthur Schle­singer, Jr., Scholar-activist in Cold War America: 1946–1956.” Salmagundi 63/64 (1984): 255–285. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40547663.

  Wright, David McCord. Review of The Vital Center, by Arthur M. Schle­singer Jr. The American Economic Review 41, no. 1 (1951): 217–219. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1815990.

  Wyatt, Wilson W. Whistle Stops: Adventures in Public Life. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1985.

  Zimmer, Louis B. The Vietnam War Debate: Hans J. Morgenthau and the Attempt to Halt the Drift Into Disaster. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011.

  Zuckerman, Laurence. “How the C.I.A. Played Dirty Tricks with Culture.” New York Times. March 18, 2000. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/18/books/how-the-cia-played-dirty-tricks
-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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