Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. (b. October 15, 1917) is an American liberal political scientist and social critic whose work has focused on the philosophies and policies of U.S. presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Richard Nixon. He served as Special Assistant to the President in John F. Kennedy administration. He wrote the definitive account of the Kennedy Administration entitled "A Thousand Days."

Works

• 1939 Orestes A. Brownson: A Pilgrim's Progress
• 1945 The Age of Jackson
• 1949 The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom
• 1950 What About Communism?
• 1951 The General and the President, and the Future of American Foreign Policy
• 1957 The Crisis of the Old Order: 1919-1933 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol. I)
• 1958 The Coming of the New Deal: 1933-1935 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol. II)
• 1960 The Politics of Upheaval: 1935-1936 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol. III)
• 1960 Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any Difference?
• 1963 The Politics of Hope
• 1965 A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
• 1965 The MacArthur Controversey and American Foreign Policy
• 1967 Bitter Heritage: Vietnam and American Democracy, 1941-1966
• 1967 Congress and the Presidency: Their Role in Modern Times
• 1968 Violence: America in the Sixties
• 1969 The Crisis of Confidence: Ideas, Power, and Violence in America
• 1970 The Origins of the Cold War
• 1973 The Imperial Presidency
• 1978 Robert Kennedy and His Times
• 1983 Creativity in Statecraft
• 1986 Cycles of American History
• 1988 JFK Remembered
• 1988 War and the Constitution: Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt
• 1990 Is the Cold War Over?
• 1991 The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society
• 2000 Autobiography: A Life in the 20th Century, Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950
• 2004 War and the American Presidency