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Associated Press Letters From Camelot's Historian
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. remembers what Jackie Kennedy thought of Hillary Clinton, upbraids John Boehner for misquoting Lincoln, and denies JFK's philandering.
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A Man From Mars
Fifty years ago John Gunther, a brilliant foreign correspondent, published a famous book about "the greatest, craziest, most dangerous ... most powerful and magnificent nation ever known."
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The Supreme Partnership
"Would the two men ever have been passionate friends had they not been President and Prime Minister in the time of Hitler?
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Is the Vice Presidency Necessary?
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."
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AP The Runaway Presidency
As a steady stream of disturbing revelations surfaced in the Watergate investigation, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.—a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and a former adviser to President Kennedy—argued that under Richard Nixon's insidious influence, the power of the presidency had spiraled out of control.
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AP Dealing With an Out-of-Control President, in 1973
In the midst of the Watergate scandal, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. considered how Richard Nixon had abused the powers of the presidency—and how constitutional order could be restored.
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Twenty Letters to a Father
"This book is not the work of a sensationalist or a traitor. It is wrung from an agonized conscience and a sickened heart."
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David Pickoff / AP On the Writing of Contemporary History
“The increase in the velocity of history means, among other things, that the ‘present’ becomes the ‘past’ more swiftly than ever before.”
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Mark Twain, or the Ambiguities
"When we remember that we are all mad," Mark Twain wrote in his notebooks, "the mysteries disappear, and life stands explained."
