Arthur Schlesinger

Ted Sorensen - Unassuming Insider at the Center of Power

Tom Alderman | Posted 08.20.2008 | Media


Tom Alderman

AUDIO BOOK: "Counselor, A Life at the Edge of History" AUTHOR: Ted Sorensen ("Kennedy," "The Kennedy Legacy") GENRE: Autobiog...

Robert F. Kennedy's Indiana Campaign

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

On May 7, 1968, Democrats in Indiana would go to the polls. A loss for Robert F. Kennedy there, in the first primary he entered, could stop the campaign in its tracks.

The Prejudice of Predefinition

Janet Ritz | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics


Janet Ritz

I listened to Barack Obama's historic speech both in awe of the raw truth of his words and in recognition of the dignity with which he faces the obvio...

Email Is Changing the Way We Communicate and Historians Are Worried

Tom Alderman | Posted 03.05.2008 | Media


Tom Alderman

You can shred a document and it's gone. You can erase a tape and it's blank. You can delete your email and trash your computer but your email is alive -- somewhere, on somebody's server.

Lapham's Quarterly: Cutting-Edge Journalism From The Distant Past

Tony Hendra | Posted 12.03.2007 | Media


Tony Hendra

It wouldn't surprise me if a Fox News couch-commando had a very different but just as satisfying takeaway from reading the Lapham's Quarterly's 'States of War' as a lily-livered peacenik like me.

Maureen Dowd Reviews Arthur Schlesinger's Journals

Posted 10.07.2007 | Politics


It's hard not to like a book that expounds on Marilyn Monroe on one page and the Monroe Doctrine on the next. When Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ruminates...