19 “New York: Swinging Soothsayer,” Time, March 3, 1967.
20 AMS to RFK, June 18, 1964, Sept. 28, 1964, JFKL, AMS Series 3, Box P06, 1964 campaign correspondence, RFK & AMS; Ronnie Eldridge, “The Carpetbagger, 1964,” New York Times, Feb. 23, 1999, http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/23/opinion/the-carpetbagger-1964.html.
21 Diary entries, Dec. 5, 1963, July 28, 1967, AMS Journals, 213; Zimmer, The Vietnam War Debate, 150. On RFK’s decision to run in 1968, see Thurston Clarke, The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America (New York: Henry Holt, 2008), 19–38.
22 AMS to Robert Kennedy, Nov. 3, Dec. 13, 1967, NYPL 77/6; diary entries, Dec. 10, 1967, January 25, 30, 1968, AMS Journals, 268–276.
23 Diary entry, March 17, 1968, AMS Journals, 283.
24 Diary entry, March 19, 1968, AMS Journals, 285.
25 Diary entry, March 17, 1968, AMS Journals, 283.
26 AMS to Robert Kennedy, “The Old Politics and the New,” Apr. 9, 1968, NYPL 183/4.
27 Diary entries, April 3, 24, May 5, 1968, AMS Journals, 286.
28 Clarke, The Last Campaign, 272.
29 Diary entry, June 9, 1968, AMS Journals, 290–295.
30 Ibid.
31 Diary entry, May 5, 1968, AMS Journals, 288.
32 Diary entry, June 9, 1970, AMS Journals, 322–323.
33 Larry Ceplair and Christopher Trumbo, Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), 478; diary entry, June 9, 1970, AMS Journals, 322–323.
34 Steven V. Roberts, “Schlesinger and Hughes: Observations On Left Politics,” Harvard Crimson, Feb. 26, 1963, http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1963/2/26/schlesinger-and-hughes-observations-on-left/; AMS, “America 1968: The Politics of Violence,” Harper’s Magazine, August 1968, quoted in Stephen P. Depoe, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., and the Ideological History of American Liberalism (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994), 96–97 passim.
35 AMS, The Imperial Presidency (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973); AMS, Robert Kennedy and His Times (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978); diary entry, December 31, 1969, AMS Journals, 318; diary entry, July 8, 1972, AMS Journals, 354.
Chapter Nineteen: A Long Time Ago
1 AMS to Edward Chase, June 7, 1968; AMS to Ethel Kennedy and Edward Kennedy, June 20, 1968; AMS to Ethel Kennedy, July 16, 1968, NYPL 77/7.
2 AMS to Jacqueline Kennedy, July 24, 1968; AMS to Ethel Kennedy, Feb. 18, 1969; Burke Marshall to AMS, Feb. 18, 1969, NYPL 77/7.
3 For example, the eleven-page exchange on contemporary foreign policy and the origins of the Cold War: George F. Kennan to AMS, Aug. 10, Oct. 17, 1967; AMS to George F. Kennan, Sept. 6, Oct. 23, 1967, NYPL 176/3.
4 Diary entry, Aug. 13, 1973, AMS Journals, 374.
5 AMS, The Imperial Presidency, 114–115, 118, 122.
6 Ibid., 126–128, 150, 173.
7 Ibid., 178, 184–185.
8 See Sidney Warren, review of The Imperial Presidency, by AMS, Journal of American History 61, no. 4 (1975): 1156–1157, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1890722; Donald R. Wolfensberger, “The Return of the Imperial Presidency?” The Wilson Quarterly 26, no. 2 (2002): 36–41, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40260602; AMS, The Imperial Presidency, 208, 216.
9 AMS, The Imperial Presidency, 269, 273, 277, 417; diary entry, Dec. 18, 1986, AMS Journals.
10 Garry Wills, “A Pattern of Rising Power,” review of The Imperial Presidency, by AMS, New York Times, Nov. 18, 1973, http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/26/specials/schlesinger-imperial.html; Alfred Kazin, “No, Thank You, Mr. President,” New York Review of Books, Dec. 13, 1973, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1973/12/13/no-thank-you-mr-president/; Jonathan Aitken to AMS, June 29, 1976, NYPL 01/5. Examples of positive academic reviews of The Imperial Presidency include: Harold A. Larrabee, New England Quarterly 47, no. 1 (1974): 132–135; D. K. Adams, International Affairs 50, no. 4 (1974): 682–684, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2615984.
11 AMS to James MacGregor Burns, Jan. 6, 1976, NYPL 20/5; diary entry, Jan. 1, 1975, Jan. 1, 1978, AMS Journals, 392, 443; AMS to Isaiah Berlin, Oct. 17, 1977, NYPL 12/3–5; AMS, Robert Kennedy and His Times (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978).
12 AMS, Robert Kennedy and His Times, 1–2.
13 Ibid., xiii, 101, 896.
14 Ibid., 68, 110, 139.
15 Ibid., 610–629.
16 Ibid., 619, 651, 936–939; diary entry, June 9, 1968, AMS Journals, 294.
17 Garry Wills, “Fierce in His Loyalties and Enmities,” review of Robert Kennedy and His Times, by AMS, New York Times, Nov. 12, 1978, http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/26/specials/schlesinger-robert.html; Marshall Frady, “The Transformation of Bobby Kennedy,” review of Robert Kennedy and His Times, by AMS, New York Review of Books, Oct. 12, 1978, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1978/10/12/the-transformation-of-bobby-kennedy/; Stephen B. Oates, “Tribune of the Underclass,” review of Robert Kennedy and His Times, by AMS, American History 7, no. 2 (1979): 286–292, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2701107; diary entry, June 9, 1968, AMS Journals, 294; AMS, Robert Kennedy and His Times, 610.
18 Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008), 154–155; AMS, Robert Kennedy and His Times, 515, 545–546.
19 AMS to Stewart Alsop, Oct. 15, 1969, NYPL 02/5.
20 AMS to J. K. Galbraith, May 9, 1977, NYPL 19/5; New York Post, May 3, 1977.
21 Joseph Alsop to AMS, April 4, 1975, NYPL 02/5.
22 J. H. Plumb, The Collected Essays of J. H. Plumb, vol. II, The American Experience (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989), 131; Daniel T. Rodgers, Age of Fracture (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011), 5–7.
23 Diary entry, Sept. 21, 1978, AMS Journals, 452.
Chapter Twenty: Being Arthur Schlesinger
1 AMS to Isaiah Berlin, Oct. 17, 1977, NYPL 12/3–5; AMS to Ely, Bartlett, Brown & Proctor law firm, April 12, 1970; AMS to Marian Cannon Schlesinger, Sept. 10, 1970 & draft; Hill & Barlow law firm to AMS, Nov. 10, 1971, NYPL 519/2; AMS to “Dearest Children,” June 27, 1972, NYPL 516/9.
2 AMS to “Dearest Children,” June 27, 1972, NYPL 516/9; Katharine Schlesinger to AMS, July 9, 1969, NYPL 511/1.
3 Katharine Schlesinger to AMS, June 16, 1969, NYPL 510/1; Christina Schlesinger, interview with author, Apr. 16, 2014.
4 Marian Cannon Schlesinger, interview with author, March 9, 2014; Walter LaFeber, interview with author, June 4, 2014; Alexandra Emmet Schlesinger, interview with author, June 17, 2015.
5 Peter Allan, interview with author, Dec. 19, 2014; closing statement on 171 E. 64th Street, NYPL 516/3–8.
6 Robert Schlesinger, interview with author, Nov. 14, 2016.
7 Alexandra Emmet Schlesinger, interview with author, June 17, 2015; Christina Schlesinger, emails to author, Oct. 26–28, 2016.
8 Christina Schlesinger to AMS, Aug. 24, Sept. 10, 1977, NYPL 293/5; Christina Schlesinger, email to author, Oct. 26, 2016; Alexandra Emmet Schlesinger, interview with author, June 17, 2015.
9 Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger to AMS, undated [1970s], NYPL 514/3; Marian Cannon Schlesinger, interview with author, Mar. 9, 2014; diary entry, June 1, 1977, AMS Journals, 431.
10 Diary entry, June 1, 1977, AMS Journals, 431–432; diary entry, Oct. 15, 1977, AMS Journals, 435.
11 Sandra Hochman, “Arthur Schlesinger Halfway Through His Book on Bobby and Enjoying His Life to the Hilt,” People, Aug. 16, 1976, http://people.com/archive/arthur-schlesinger-is-halfway-through-his-book-on-bobby-and-enjoying-his-life-to-the-hilt-vol-6-no-7.
12 James Fallows, “Arthur Schlesinger Jr.,” The Atlantic, Mar. 2007.
13 AMS to J. K. Galbraith, June 21, 1976, NYPL 49/3; diary entry, July 21, 1992, AMS Journals, 725; Fallows, “Arthur Schlesinger Jr.”
14 AMS to Bill Clinton, Feb. 6, 1994, NYPL 8/1; diary entry, Aug. 13, 1980, AMS Journals, 499; AMS to Michael Dukakis, Sept. 1, 1988, NYPL 38/5; “Arthur Schlesinger Tells of J.F.K. Remembered on a Sunny Autumn
Saturday in Boston,” People, Nov. 5, 1979; Robert Schlesinger, interview with author, Nov. 14, 2016.
15 Diary entries, Oct. 3, 5, 1979, AMS Journals, 474–475.
16 Jonathan Aitken to AMS, June 29, 1976, NYPL 01/5; diary entry, March 4, 1980, AMS Journals, 490; Robert Thomas Jr., “Nixons Reported to Have Bought East Side House,” New York Times, Oct. 5, 1979, http://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/05/archives/nixons-reported-to-have-bought-east-side-house-drop-condominium.html; Kevin Coyne, “Final Days for a Moldy Nixon Retreat,” New York Times, May 6, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/06colnj.html.
17 AMS, The Cycles of American History (Boston: Mariner Books, 1986); Hugh Brogan, review of The Cycles of American History, by AMS, Reviews in American History 15, no. 4 (1987): 521–526, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2701925; Arthur Schlesinger (Sr.), Paths to the Present (New York: Macmillan, 1964); AMS, The Cycles of American History, 24–25, 45; Benjamin Barber, “America as a Monumental Gamble,” review of The Cycles of American History, by AMS, New York Times, Nov. 16, 1986, http://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/16/books/america-as-a-monumental-gamble.html?pagewanted=all.
18 See Frank Freidel, review of The Cycles of American History, by AMS, The American Historical Review 93, no. 1 (1988): 213–214, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1865820; AMS, The Cycles of American History, 16; George F. Kennan, “In the American Mirror,” New York Review of Books, Nov. 6, 1986, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1986/11/06/in-the-american-mirror.
19 AMS, The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998 revised edition), 13, 19, 98–99, 125, 147.
20 Frank Kermode, “Whose History Is Bunk?” New York Times, Feb. 23, 1992, http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/23/books/whose-history-is-bunk.html; Douglas Martin, “Arthur Schlesinger, Historian of Power, Dies at 89,” New York Times, March 1, 2007; Heather MacDonald, review of The Disuniting of America, by AMS, Commentary, June 1, 1992, https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-disuniting-of-america-by-arthur-m-schlesinger-jr; diary entry, Feb. 25, 1991, AMS Journals, 704.
21 “Happy Birthday Arthur”; AMS, “75,” Oct. 15, 1992, NYPL 523/3.
22 Publishing Agreement, Dec. 15, 1993, NYPL 172/6; diary entry, Nov. 4, 2000, AMS Journals, 855; “The Education of an American Liberal,” Economist, Oct. 26, 2000, http://www.economist.com/node/404588; AMS, A Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917–1950 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000).
23 AMS, War and the American Presidency (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005); Angelo Codevilla, “Get Serious,” review of War and the American Presidency, by AMS, Claremont Review of Books 10, no. 2 (2005), http://www.claremont.org/crb/article/get-serious/; Kevin Drum, “ ‘War and the American Presidency’: Dire Conclusions,” New York Times, Sept. 5, 2004, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/05/books/review/war-and-the-american-presidency-dire-conclusions.html.
24 Diary entry, June 10, 1971, AMS Journals, 337; AMS to Robert Schlesinger, Nov. 10, 1991, NYPL 299/4.
25 AMS, “Forgetting Reinhold Niebuhr,” New York Times, Sept. 18, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/books/review/forgetting-reinhold-niebuhr.html?_r=0.
26 Jordan Michael Smith, “The Philosopher of the Post-9/11 Era,” Slate, Oct. 17, 2011, http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2011/10/john_diggins_why_niebuhr_now_reviewed_how_did_he_become_the_phil.html.
27 Caro quoted in Hillel Italie, “Arthur Schlesinger Remembered,” Boston Globe, March 1, 2007, http://archive.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2007/03/01/arthur_schlesinger_remembered.
28 Robert B. Semple Jr., “A Historian’s Valedictory,” New York Times, March 2, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/opinion/02fri4.html; AMS, “Forgetting Reinhold Niebuhr”; AMS, “History’s Folly,” New York Times, Jan. 1, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/01/opinion/01schlesinger.html.
Epilogue: Rewriting History
1 AMS, “Orestes Brownson: A Pilgrim’s Progress” (undergraduate thesis, Harvard University, 1938), Harvard University Archives, 1; Christopher Hitchens, “The Courtier,” The Atlantic (Dec. 2007), http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/12/the-courtier/306429/; May quoted in Vivek Viswanathan, “Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. and the Kennedy Legacy in American Politics, 1964–1980 (M.Phil thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010), 108; Joseph Lelyveld, “The Adventures of Arthur,” New York Review of Books, Nov. 8, 2007, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2007/11/08/the-adventures-of-arthur/.
2 David Greenberg, “Not Just Camelot’s Historian,” Slate, March 1, 2007, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/obit/2007/03/not_just_camelots_historian.html; C. Vann Woodward to AMS, March 1, 1961, The Letters of C. Vann Woodward, ed. Michael O’Brien (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013), 216.
3 Alexander Star, “His Liberal Imagination,” Q&A with AMS, New York Times, Nov. 26, 2000, http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/26/reviews/001126.26int.html; AMS to Christina Schlesinger, Nov. 24, 1968, NYPL 293/5.
4 AMS diaries, May 25, 1937, NYPL 309 (volume 5).
5 AMS, “The Historian as Participant,” Daedalus 100, no. 2 (1971): 353–355, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20024007; The Works of Edward Gibbon: Autobiography, ed. John Murray (New York: DeFau & Company, 1907), 336.
6 Robert H. Ferrell, “C. Vann Woodward,” in Clio’s Favorites: Leading Historians of the United States, 1945–2000, ed. Robert Allen Rutland (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000), 175; David S. Brown, Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), 138–139.
7 Barton J. Bernstein, Towards A New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History (New York: Vintage Books, 1969), v–vi.
8 The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President, ed. Taylor Branch (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009), 32–33.
9 Brown, Richard Hofstadter, 57.
10 Christopher Lasch, “The Cultural Cold War: A Short History of the Congress for Cultural Freedom,” in Towards A New Past, 354; Marcus Cunliffe, “Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,” in Pastmasters: Some Essays on American Historians, ed. Marcus Cunliffe and Robin Winks (New York: Harper and Row, 1969), 369–371; Richard Reeves, President Kennedy: Profile of Power (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994), 18; Branch, The Clinton Tapes, 35.
11 AMS, “The Historian and History,” Foreign Affairs (Apr. 1963), https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1963-04-01/historian-and-history; AMS, “The Historian as Participant,” Daedalus 100, no. 2 (1971): 353–355, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20024007.
12 Tevi Troy, Intellectuals and the American Presidency (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002), 48–74; Edmund Morris, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (London: HarperCollins, 2000); Branch, The Clinton Tapes.
13 AMS, “On Making Eighty,” NYPL 524/3.
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