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Article: Journals.(Journals, 1952-2000)(Book review)
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- January 1, 2008
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1952-2000
By Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., edited by Andrew Schlesinger and Stephen Schlesinger
EXCELLENT
Before the gossip blogs.
To say that Arthur Schlesinger was one of the 20th century's great social and political gadabouts would be a gross understatement. Schlesinger, noted historian, valued political advisor to JFK, and cultural critic, knew everyone and everything that went on in America during his lengthy career. Journals weighs in on Marilyn Monroe and the Monroe Doctrine, Richard Nixon and Angie Dickinson, Bush v. Gore, Lauren Bacall, Jesse Jackson, Fidel Castro, Bill Clinton, and Norman Mailer. And in this brick of a tome, which began as 8,000 pages ...