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The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935, volume two of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s Age of Roosevelt series, describes Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first tumultuous years in the White House. More about this book >
Schlesinger's account vividly recalls the forces that shaped Robert Kennedy, from his position as the third son of a powerful Irish Catholic political clan to his concern for issues of social justice in the turbulent 1960s. More about this book >
Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., was Albert Schweitzer Professor of the Humanities at the City University of New York and author of more than 20 books, including prize-winning biographies of Andrew Jackson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as well as histories of the New Deal. Schlesinger also was a founder of Americans for Democratic Action and worked on the presidential campaigns for John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. His book A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House won the National Book Award in 1966. He won a second National Book Award in 1979 for his biography Robert Kennedy and his Times.
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