A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House

Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winner: "Of all the Kennedy books . . . this is the best."—Time

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy throughout his presidency—from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy’s tragic and unexpected assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald. In A Thousand Days, Schlesinger combines intimate knowledge as one of President Kennedy’s inner circle with sweeping research and historic context to provide a look at one of t...