A Thousand Days

by Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr.

• ISBN13: 9780618219278
• ISBN10: 0618219277
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-03
• Publisher: Mariner Books

Summary

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).

Author Biography

ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR., the author of sixteen books, was a renowned historian and social critic. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1946 for The Age of Jackson and in 1966 for A Thousand Days. He was also the winner of the National Book Award for both A Thousand Days and Robert Kennedy and His Times (1979). In 1998 he was awarded the prestigious National Humanities Medal.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the 2002 Edition	ix
Foreword	xvii
Prologue: January 1961	1	(5)
The Road to the Nomination	6	(27)
Triumph in Los Angeles	33	(29)
Campaign for the Presidency	62	(15)
Kennedy on the Eve	77	(41)
Gathering of the Forces	118	(28)
Prelude to the New Frontier	146	(19)
Latin American Journey	165	(21)
The Alliance for Progress	186	(20)
The Hour of Euphoria	206	(27)
The Bay of Pigs	233	(34)
Ordeal by Fire	267	(31)
New Departures	298	(22)
Legacy in Southeast Asia	320	(23)
Encounter in Europe	343	(36)
Trial in Berlin	379	(27)
The Reconstruction of Diplomacy	406	(42)
Peril in the Skies	448	(30)
No Truce in Terror	478	(28)
New Directions in the Third World	506	(26)
Tangle in Southeast Asia	532	(19)
Africa: The New Adventure	551	(34)
The World of Diversity	585	(35)
The Country Moving Again	620	(24)
The National Agenda	644	(20)
In the White House	664	(28)
Down Pennsylvania Avenue	692	(22)
The Bully Pulpit	714	(25)
The Politics of Modernity	739	(20)
Battle for the Hemisphere	759	(35)
Again Cuba	794	(26)
The Great Turning	820	(22)
The Not So Grand Design	842	(25)
Two Europes: De Gaulle and Kennedy	867	(22)
The Pursuit of Peace	889	(35)
The Travail of Equal Rights	924	(26)
The Negro Revolution	950	(28)
Autumn 1963	978	(55)
Index	1033