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...THOUSAND DAYS: JOHN F. KENNEDY IN THE WHITE HOUSE, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Some of Kennedy's advisers stood nearer the President, but none was better equipped than Harvard Historian Schlesinger to pay public respect to his memory. Perceptive as history and vivid as memoir, this-despite its touches of partisanship-is the most balanced assessment of the Kennedy years...
Bowl of Jelly. Schlesinger was nowhere near as close to Kennedy as Speechwriter Ted Sorensen, whose own memoir soared to the top of the bestseller lists. No matter. Acutely aware of his peripheral vantage point, Schlesinger has managed-by using state papers, letters and personal interviews-to reconstruct the period so skillfully that the result is not so much a personal memoir as a penetrating, balanced ledger of the Kennedy Administration...
Penkovsky's memoir-smuggled out of Russia on one of the secret routes that carried Abram Tertz's and Boris Pasternak's works westward-is gritty and gripe-ridden in its condemnation of Moscow's upper-echelon morals, and filled with "revelations" presumably intended to compromise Soviet agents...
...this guarded memoir, dapper, frosty old Lawyer Dean Acheson recalls the great ones he has known and paints in muted, modest tones his career until the time he joined the State Department in 1941. He recalls a comfortably idyllic New England boyhood (his English-born father was Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut), his years as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, his practice with a Washington law firm. It is all consistently respectable and, alas, consistently unrevealing -except for one rewarding chapter on Under Secretary of the Treasury Acheson's squabble with F.D.R. The President's freewheeling...
This is no mere memoir. It is a monument-but like a monument, it has a ponderous, granitic quality. What makes this all the more disappointing is the fact that it comes from the hand of the same Ted Sorensen who, as John F. Kennedy's chief speechwriter, was partly responsible for the contrapuntal elegance and consistent eloquence of the late President's addresses...