Ted Widmer
Articles by Ted Widmer
Citizen Kennedy
Barry Blitt
The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and the 82 Days that Inspired America
By Thurston Clarke
Henry Holt, 321 pages, $25
For a people whom Tocqueville described as living eternally in the future, we Americans do quite a lot of remembering. Eight weeks ago, it was Martin Luther King Jr., who has been gone longer than he was alive. Now we enter the season of remembrance for a former New York senator, Robert F. Kennedy, a season made all the more poignant by the depressing news that the Liberal Lion, Ted Kennedy, is suddenly and unexpectedly a lion in winter. read more »
An Intellectual’s Ruminative Romps: Schlesinger’s Journals
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007) in his annus horribilis, 1963.
The publication of Arthur Schlesinger’s Journals brings to completion his life of nonstop commentary. read more »
The House Of Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr. meets with J.F.K. on an impromptu visit to Harvard.
I felt that I knew Arthur long before I actually met him, because of his books. read more »
Honest Abe to the Rescue- Goodwin Needs Him; Nation, Too
One score and nine years ago, Doris Kearns Goodwin launched her career as a Presidential historian w read more »
Honest Abe to the Rescue— Goodwin Needs Him; Nation, Too
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Hunky Abe
One score and nine years ago, Doris Kearns Goodwin launched her career as a Presidential historian w read more »
Our Best Writer, Revived Again— Melville Made Whole at Last
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Herman Melville (1819-1891), handsome, voluble, bearded
High above the intersection of Park Avenue and 26th Street, exactly where no one will notice it, a s read more »
Our Best Writer, Revived Again- Melville Made Whole at Last
High above the intersection of Park Avenue and 26th Street, exactly where no one will notice it, a s read more »
A Calm and Considered LookAt a Vast, Divisive Presidency
The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House, by John F. Harris. read more »
Ben Franklin, Diplomat, Flirts Fabulously With France
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France and the Birth of America, by Stacy Schiff. read more »
‘The Foundingest Father,’ Ubiquitous at a Key Moment
His Excellency: George Washington, by Joseph J. Ellis. Alfred A. Knopf, 352 pages, $26.95.
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Fearsome Office Warriors: Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice and Co.
Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet , by James Mann. Viking, 426 pages, $25.95. read more »
Bush Speechwriter's Revealing Memoir Is Nerd's Revenge
The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush . by David Frum. read more »
Reston, King of Access, Dean of a Trustworthy Press
Scotty: James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism , by John F. Stacks. read more »
Franklin the Fabulous Founder Rescued From Recent Neglect
Benjamin Franklin , by Edmund S. Morgan. read more »
Anonymous Does History: Ex-F.O.B. on the Age of Clinton
The modern Democratic Party, like New York itself, came into itsown around the time of the Erie Cana read more »
Our 'Strenuous Teddy': Local Hero, Bully President
Theodore Rex , by Edmund Morris. read more »
Slumming in Squeeze Gut Alley: The Story of the Dirtiest Ward
Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, a read more »
Pop Presidential Biographer Shakes Up American Pantheon
Pop Presidential Biographer Shakes Up American Pantheon John Adams , by David McCullough. read more »
A Pair of Pros Collaborate: Pitcher and Baseball Writer
A Pitcher's Story: Innings with David Cone , by Roger Angell. read more »
Rosy View of the Happy Warrior Who Shaped Modern New York
Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith , by Robert A. Slayton. read more »
