![]() ![]() In our time, presidential historians have been reaching back even further, to the founders, either in search of lessons useful for current debates or to re-examine the characters and leadership of those colossal figures in ways that can help clarify our own preoccupations. Schlesinger’s multivolume history of the New Deal was called “The Age of Roosevelt” - tightening the link between the two projects and the two presidents. Roosevelt died, recast the populist Andrew Jackson as the bold progenitor of the New Deal - and also won a Pulitzer. Schlesinger Jr.’s vivid book, published in 1945, the year Franklin D. Similarly, “The Age of Jackson,” Arthur M. What lingers is its status as a kind of campaign document that set the table for Kennedy’s own rise from the Senate to the presidency. But few remember its portraits of Senate lions like Thomas Hart Benton and George Norris. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kennedy’s “Profiles in Courage” won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957. The political biographies most popular in the modern era often tell us less about their subjects than about the moment in which the books themselves are published. ![]()
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