The Pulitzer Prize-winning portrait of John F. Kennedy's Presidency, by one of the most celebrated historians of our time, is now fully illustrated with hundreds of historic photographs and documents. Published in 1965, "A Thousand Days" is considered to be the seminal work on Kennedy and his administration, which lasted just past a thousand days from January 1961 top November 22nd, 1963, the day Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. The book was written in the months following Kennedy's death. Now, for the first time comes an abridged and fully illustrated edition of this important historical work. The 300 colour and black-and-white photographs add an entirely new dimension to the text. It is the first illustrated edition of a classic book, which has already sold over one million copies, is edited and abridged by the original author, and with his new foreword. Schlesinger was a special assistant to the President and witnessed first hand events and personalities of the Kennedy era. Show More Show Less ...

The bestseller that reminded us what it means to be an American is more timely than ever in this updated and enlarged edition, including "Schlesinger's Syllabus," an annotated reading list of core books on the American experience. The classic image of the American nation-a melting pot in which differences of race, wealth, religion, and nationality are submerged in democracy-is being replaced by an orthodoxy that celebrates difference and abandons assimilation. While this upsurge in ethnic awareness has had many healthy consequences in a nation shamed by a history of prejudice, the cult of ethnicity, if pressed too far, threatens to fragment American society to a dangerous degree. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner in history and adviser to the Kennedy and other administrations, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., is uniquely positioned to wave the caution flag in the race to a politics of identity. Using a broader canvas in this updated and expanded edition, he examines the international dimension and the lessons of one polyglot country after another tearing itself apart or on the brink of doing so: among them the former Yugoslavia, Nigeria, even Canada. Closer to home, he finds troubling new evidence that multiculturalism gone awry here in the United States threatens to do the same....