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Richard Aldous

Biography

Richard Aldous

Richard Aldous is a professor of history at Bard College, where he holds the Eugene Meyer Chair. He is the author and editor of 11 books, including THE LION AND THE UNICORN and REAGAN AND THATCHER. Aldous is a contributor to television and radio on both sides of the Atlantic, and his writing appears regularly in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Book Review and the American Interest, where he is a contributing editor. He lives in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

Richard Aldous

Books by Richard Aldous

Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian
by Richard Aldous - Biography, History, Politics, Textbook

The first major biography of preeminent historian and intellectual Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a defining figure in Kennedy’s White House. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007), known today as the architect of John F. Kennedy’s presidential legacy --- and the myth of Camelot --- blazed an extraordinary path from Harvard University to wartime London to the West Wing. The son of a pioneering historian --- and a two-time Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner in his own right --- Schlesinger redefined the art of presidential biography.