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Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

The Supreme Partnership

Magazine October 1984

"Would the two men ever have been passionate friends had they not been President and Prime Minister in the time of Hitler?… More »

Is the Vice Presidency Necessary?

Magazine May 1974

No, argues historian Schlesinger. It is like the human appendix, a vestigial organ on the body politic. John Nance Garner called the office a lot of things, some of them not as polite as "a spare tire on the automobile of government."… More »

Twenty Letters to a Father

Magazine November 1967

"This book is not the work of a sensationalist or a traitor. It is wrung from an agonized conscience and a sickened heart."… More »

On the Writing of Contemporary History

Magazine March 1967

The country has widely discussed the so-called "management of news." The controversy over William Manchester's Death of a President, together with lesser contretemps over earlier books, about President Kennedy and his Administration, suggests a companion subject: the management of history. When do contemporary affairs become history? What are the responsibilities and obligations of those who propose to write that history and of those who help to make it?…… More »

Mark Twain, or the Ambiguities

Magazine August 1966

"When we remember that we are all mad," Mark Twain wrote in his notebooks, "the mysteries disappear, and life stands explained."… More »

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