The Cycles of American History
Franklin Library, 1986. First Edition. Full Leather. Fine / No Jacket as Issued. Item #5140
A handsome red leather First Edition signed by the author. With gold gilt cover designs and page edges, marbled endpapers and bound-in silk bookmark. A historian's "reflection on the past and the future of the American experiment." In Fine condition. Includes the Franklin Library letter to Signed First Edition subscribers. A collectible political title.
Political critic and author Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. studied American liberalism and examined the presidencies of Harry S. Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, and the Kennedy brothers, John and Robert. He was particularly vocal about his disrespect for Nixon, whom he accused of fostering an "imperial presidency," and he also criticized the 2003 Iraq War. In this collection of 14 essays, Schlesinger constructs his cyclical theory-- his argument that America sequences through thirty-year cycles alternating between a focus on public good and private gain. Schlesinger won the 1946 Pulitzer for History and the 1966 Pulitzer for best Biography.
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