Arthur Schlesinger

Ted Sorensen - Unassuming Insider at the Center of Power

Tom Alderman | Posted 08.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Eisenhower, Leadership, Mike McCurry, American University, Cia, Harry Hopkins, Kennedy, American Power, Arthur Schlesinger, Joe Biden, Cuban Missile Crisis, Richard Goodwin, Richard Nixon, Kenny O'Donnell, Ted Sorensen, Clark Clifford, Special Counsel to the President, Jimmy Carter, Adlai Stevenson, Jfk, Nixon, Bay of Pigs, Media News
Tom Alderman

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

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Robert F. Kennedy's Indiana Campaign

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Anthony Lewis, Richard Hatcher, Arthur Schlesinger, 1968, Richard Daley, Birch Bayh, Indiana Primary, Robert F. Kennedy, Politics News
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.

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The Prejudice of Predefinition

Janet Ritz | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama's Race Speech, Obama, Arthur Schlesinger, The Environmentalist, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, Politics News
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...

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Email Is Changing the Way We Communicate and Historians Are Worried

Tom Alderman | Posted 03.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Historians, National Archives and Records Administration, Email, Spam, Thomas Jefferson, Valuable Digital Assests, Arthur Schlesinger, Text Messaging, Digital Archives, Wisconsin State Archives, Internet, John Adams, Jr., Future Generations, U.C.S.D. Super Computer Center, Nara, Media News
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.

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

Tony Hendra | Posted 12.03.2007 | Media

Read More: Lewis Lapham, Harpers, General Patton, Herodotus, Neo-Conservatism, Fox News, Arthur Schlesinger, George Santayana, Israeli Defense Force, Media News
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.

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Maureen Dowd Reviews Arthur Schlesinger's Journals

Posted 10.07.2007 | Politics

Read More: Maureen Dowd, Arthur Schlesinger, Politics News

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...

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