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Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
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Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House Trade paperback - 2002 - 1st Edition

by Arthur M Schlesinger

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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).

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Mariner Books, June 2002. Trade Paperback . Very Good. 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).
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  • Title Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
  • Author Arthur M Schlesinger
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 1087
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mariner Books, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date June 2002
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 315948
  • ISBN 9780618219278 / 0618219277
  • Weight 1.9 lbs (0.86 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.8 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 4.57 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Kennedy, John F, Presidents - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002032296
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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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).

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THE ELECTION OF Dwight D. Eisenhower to the Presidency in 1952 had signaled a change in the prevailing weather of American politics - a return, in effect, to Republican 'normalcy' after twenty years of Democratic activism.

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