The Crisis of Confidence: Ideas, Power and Violence in America.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering. xvii, 313pp. Near fine. Lacks dust jacket. Item #51140
Attractive, tight first edition and with fine presentation inscription from Schlesinger in black fineline on front flyleaf: "For Adlai and Nancy / with affection / Arthur." Schlesinger (1917-2007) was a prolific historian and intellectual who served as speechwriter and advisor to Illinois governor Adlai E. Stevenson II in the 1952 and 1956 Democratic presidential campaigns and had a prominent role in the JFK administration. From the library of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois (1969-81).
Price: $75.00