The Politics of Hope and the Bitter Heritage: American Liberalism in the 1960s

by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Book Overview

The Politics of Hope and The Bitter Heritage brings together two important books that bracket the tempestuous politics of 1960s America. In The Politics of Hope, which historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., published in 1963 while serving as a special assistant to President Kennedy, Schlesinger defines the liberalism that characterized the Kennedy administration and the optimistic early Sixties. In lively and incisive essays, most...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691134758
• ISBN13: 9780691134758
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.9" x 7.9"