A Thousand Days: John F Kennedy in the White House
โ Scribed by M, Arthur; jr, Schlesinger
- Book ID
- 109511191
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780547524504
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
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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On two consecutive days in June 1963, in two lyrical speeches, John F. Kennedy pivots dramatically and boldly on the two greatest issues of his time: nuclear arms and civil rights. In language unheard in lily white, Cold War America, he appeals to Americans to see both the Russians and the "Negroes"