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

SCHLESINGER, Arthur M.

Item Number: 127833

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.

First edition of the historian’s classic work on the Kennedy administration’s first thousand days. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Frank Sutherland with best wishes Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.” Fine in a near fine first state dust jacket priced at $9.00. Also, laid in is a autograph letter signed from Schlesinger to the recipient. Uncommon signed and inscribed.

A Thousand Days is "at once a masterly literary achievement and a work of major historical significance" (New York Times). One of the few now classic works regarding the Kennedy White House years. The noted historian Schlesinger's name is inseparable from the president's administration he so influenced. Schlesinger role as former college-attendee and later speechwriter to Kennedy served to cast the Kennedy White House years more as America's Camelot. "From The Age of Jackson to The Age of Roosevelt to the two Kennedy biographies (which could as easily have been called 'The Age of the Kennedys'), Schlesinger can be seen to have written a gapped history of 150 years of 'triumphant liberalism'" (Boston Globe). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this is the classic study of the presidency of John F. Kennedy as told by a master historian who had the advantage of personally witnessing the great and tragic events of which he writes. "Of all the Kennedy books . . . this is the best." (Time).