A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002 - 1087 páginas
Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner: "Of all the Kennedy books . . . this is the best."--Time



Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy throughout his presidency--from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy's tragic and unexpected assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald. In A Thousand Days, Schlesinger combines intimate knowledge as one of President Kennedy's inner circle with sweeping research and historic context to provide a look at one of the most legendary presidential administrations in American history.



From JFK's battle with Nixon during the 1960 election, to the seemingly charmed inaugural days, to international conflict and domestic unrest, Schlesinger takes a close and fond, but unsparing, look at Kennedy's tenure in the White House, covering well-known successes, like his involvement in the Civil Rights movement; infamous humiliations, like the Bay of Pigs; and often overlooked struggles, like the Skybolt missile mix-up, alike.



A Thousand Days is "at once a masterly literary achievement and a work of major historical significance" (New York Times).

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JANUARY 1961
1
THE ROAD TO THE NOMINATION
6
TRIUMPH IN LOS ANGELES
33
CAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESIDENCY
62
KENNEDY ON THE EVE
77
GATHERING OF THE FORCES
118
PRELUDE TO THE NEW FRONTIER
146
LATIN AMERICAN JOURNEY
165
TANGLE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
532
AFRICA THE NEW ADVENTURE
551
THE WORLD OF DIVERSITY
585
THE COUNTRY MOVING AGAIN
620
THE NATIONAL AGENDA
644
IN THE WHITE HOUSE
664
DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
692
THE BULLY PULPIT
714

THE ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESS
186
THE HOUR OF EUPHORIA
206
THE BAY OF PIGS
233
ORDEAL BY FIRE
267
NEW DEPARTURES
298
LEGACY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
320
ENCOUNTER IN EUROPE
343
TRIAL IN BERLIN
379
THE RECONSTRUCTION OF DIPLOMACY
406
PERIL IN THE SKIES
448
NO TRUCE TO TERROR
478
NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE THIRD WORLD
506
THE POLITICS OF MODERNITY
739
BATTLE FOR THE HEMISPHERE
759
AGAIN CUBA
794
THE GREAT TURNING
820
THE NOT SO GRAND DESIGN
842
TWO EUROPES DE GAULLE AND KENNEDY
867
THE PURSUIT OF PEACE
889
THE TRAVAIL OF EQUAL RIGHTS
924
THE NEGRO REVOLUTION
950
AUTUMN 1963
978
INDEX
1033
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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.

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