UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / - 05 November 2007 --  The just-published Journals of the late historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr covering the years from 1952-2000 have apparently struck a chord in America, according to the latest bookstore tabulations. The Journals are now a national best seller – an unique achievement for personal and political diaries. 

The reason seems to be that they have  tapped into a vein of nostalgia for those earlier times when the United States had larger-than-life personalities ranging from Adlai Stevenson to John and Robert Kennedy, Jackie Onassis, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and many others, in its midst, whose flair and progressive ideas dominated the social and political scene. 

Mr. Schlesinger’s intimate recollections of these individuals has earned extraordinary praise from reviewers around the country:

• The New York Times’ Janet Maslin called the Journals “moving and monumental.” 

• In the Los Angeles Times, historian Douglas Brinkley labeled them “a deeply revelatory and no-holds-barred tour de force tome.” 

• The editor of Newsweek Magazine, Jon Meacham, wrote in a front-page review in the Sunday Washington Post book section, that “it will be a long time before we see another collection of journals as rich, as fascinating and as illuminating as Schlesinger’s.” 

• Chief political reporter, Marty Nolan, in the Boston Globe, said  “for those who wish to understand the politics of the past five decades, Journals is essential.” 

• The Journals provide a direct link for Americans to the spacious ideals and remarkable figures who guided and influenced our nation throughout much of the second half of the 20^th century.

Labels: Arthur Schlesinger Journals, National Best Seller 

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