Word: partisanship
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...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 yet of the Kennedy years...
Aside from partisanship, other pitfalls exist in the sort of "instant history" that Schlesinger has undertaken. Even if he had not been partial to the Administration, some critics ask, wouldn't his very closeness to events distort his perspective? Harvard Economist J. K. Galbraith, perhaps Schlesinger's best friend, thinks not. "Saying he was too close to events is like saying he had too much information," says Galbraith. But won't future books offer a much better perspective? Says Author Theodore H. White, who has written a good deal of instant history himself...
...statistical analysis," says Yale's C. Vann Woodward, historian of the American South. "Everything still must be digested by one man sitting at his desk." And that man, argues Schlesinger, is the better historian for having got up from the desk occasionally. He concedes that participation and partisanship have their pitfalls. "To act is, in many cases, to give hostages-to parties, to policies, to persons," he has written. But "visible commitment serves at least to alert the reader, while the ostensibly uncommitted historian is left free to shoot from ambush...
...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...
...abounded. On one April day, the Harvard Student Union held a peace rally addressed by CIO leader Mike Quill, the Harvard Anti-War Committee blasted the Union as Communist-dominated and held its own peace rally with Norman Thomas, and the American Independence League attacked both sides for their 'partisanship...