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The Man with the President’s Ear, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and JFK

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No historian has ever been as close to power as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was to President Kennedy as a new collection of his letters shows. Ted Widmer on the whirl of celebrity and policy that dance across the pages.

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