A Thousand Days

1965 book by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

0-618-21927-7OCLC50155083

Dewey Decimal

973.922/092 21LC ClassE841 .S3 2002

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House is a nonfiction book by American historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., about the United States presidency of John F. Kennedy (1961–1963). As a special assistant to the president, he was able to observe the people and events that shaped the Kennedy administration. The book describes the policies, politics and personalities during Kennedy's time in office. Kennedy's cabinet is a focused aspect.

It was first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1965 and won both the National Book Award in History and Biography^[1] and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1966.^[2]

References

^ "National Book Awards – 1966". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-18.
^ "Biography or Autobiography". Past winners and finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-17.

External links

A Thousand Days at Google Books

John F. Kennedy

35th President of the United States (1961–1963)
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1953–1960)
U.S. Representative for MA–11 (1947–1953)

Presidency
(timeline)

Foreign policy	Alliance for Progress Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Flexible response Kennedy Doctrine Peace Corps Trade Expansion Act Migration and Refugee Assistance Act USAID Vietnam War Cuba: Bay of Pigs Invasion Cuban Project Cuban Missile Crisis ExComm Soviet Union: Berlin Crisis Moscow–Washington hotline Vienna summit
New Frontier	Clean Air Act Communications Satellite Act Community Mental Health Act Equal Pay Act Executive Order 11110 Federal affirmative action Federal housing segregation ban Fifty-mile hikes Food for Peace Pilot Food Stamp Program Presidential Medal of Freedom Space policy Status of Women (Presidential Commission) University of Alabama integration Voter Education Project All-Channel Receiver Act Oil Pollution Act of 1961 Revenue Act of 1962 Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act of 1961 Wetlands Loan Act

Foreign policy