![]() ![]() He was the Special Assistant to President John F Kennedy and already had won a Pulitzer Prize for History. Schlesinger had a front row seat to one of the most extraordinary periods in America’s history. These powerful images add a new dimension to the award-winning text and introduce a new generation to some of the most important and visually iconic moments in our recent past.Ī Thousand Days garnered Schlesinger the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1965. ![]() The photos capture private meetings with the president, the Bay of Pigs, the Civil Rights movement, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, as well as official White House memoranda, public speeches, social occasions, and private moments with the Kennedy family. Kennedy Library, the Library of Congress, the Associated Press, Life magazine, and more. ![]() The hundreds of photographs and documents included here have been gleaned from such sources as the John F. witnessed firsthand the politics and personalities that influenced some of the most important and dramatic events in modern history. Handpicked by Kennedy to serve as special assistant to the president, historian and Harvard professor Arthur M. Written by one of our foremost historians and published in 1965, A Thousand Days is still considered the most complete and definitive portrait of John F. ![]()
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