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Arthur M. Schlesinger •ï¿½409 Items / 155 Articles, 218 Reviews, 35 Books
The Vital Center (1949)
by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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    A Camelot Minute (Review)
    Fred Siegel
    The Vital Center, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
    1. The Vital Center by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
    The Weekly Standard, October 3, 2005, pp. 43-45
  2. [+]
    Ready to Be Radical (Review)
    Jonathan Daniels
    The Vital Center, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
    1. The Vital Center by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
    The Saturday Review, September 10, 1949, p. 11
  3. Books
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    'The Vital Center' (Review)
    August Heckscher
    A review of a book by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
    1. The Vital Center by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
    The Reporter, September 27, 1949, pp. 37-42
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    Politics and People (Review)
    Robert Bendiner
    Schlesinger's "Vital Center"
    1. The Vital Center by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
    The Nation, September 17, 1949, pp. 267-268
  5. Authors & Critics
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    "The Vital Center" Reconsidered (Review)
    Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
    The Vital Center, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
    1. The Vital Center by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
    Encounter, September 1970, pp. 89-93
  6. [+]
    The Screen: Ideas Too Broad for Leaping (Review)
    E.S.S.
    The Vital Center, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
    1. The Vital Center by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
    Commonweal, September 9, 1949, p. 538
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    Liberalism's Enemies (Review)
    Irwin Ross
    The Vital Center, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
    1. The Vital Center by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
    Commentary, October 1949, pp. 400-403
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    Briefly Noted (2 Reviews)
    General
    1. The Vital Center by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
    2. Stalin: A Political Biography by Isaac Deutscher
    The New Yorker, October 1, 1949, p. 79
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    Atlantic Bookshelf (3 Reviews)
    Potpourri
    1. W.C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes by Robert Lewis Taylor
    2. The Vital Center by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
    3. The Devil in Massachusetts by Marion L. Starkey
    The Atlantic Monthly, October 1949, pp. 86-88
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    Atlantic Bookshelf (7 Reviews)
    Charles J. Rolo
    Reader's Choice
    1. Conservatism Revisited by Peter Viereck
    2. The Vital Center by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
    3. This I Do Believe by David E. Lilienthal
    4. Live with Lightning by Mitchell Wilson
    5. Killers of the Dream by Lillian Smith
    6. John Ruskin: The Portrait of a Prophet by Peter Quennell
    7. Promise and Fulfilment: Palestine, 1917-1949 by Arthur Koestler
    The Atlantic Monthly, December 1949, pp. 92-100
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    New Books (9 Reviews)
    Richard H. Rovere
    Teldox for the Certifiably Sane
    1. The Book Industry by William Miller
    2. Don Quixote de la Mancha by Samuel Putnam and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, ...
    3. The World Next Door by Fritz Peters
    4. The Condor and the Cows by Christopher Isherwood
    5. The Greenroom by Hamilton Basso
    6. The Crack in the Column by George Weller
    7. The Vital Center by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
    8. Stalin: A Political Biography by Isaac Deutscher
    9. Three Who Made a Revolution by Bertram D. Wolfe
    The Harpers Monthly, October 1949, pp. 104-111
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    Season's Books (19 Reviews)
    Biography
    1. Desert Calling by Anne J. Fremantle
    2. The Thread That Runs So True by Jesse Stuart
    3. W.B. Yeats: Man and Poet by A. Norman Jeffares
    4. Stalin: A Political Biography by Isaac Deutscher
    5. The Strange Life of August Strindberg by Elizabeth Sprigge
    6. Father Flanagan of Boys Town by Fulton Oursler and Will Oursler
    7. Parson Austen's Daughter by Helen Ashton
    8. A Sort of a Saga by Bill Mauldin
    9. The Life of Audubon by Clyde Fisher
    10. Stafford Cripps: Master Statesman by Eric Estorick
    11. John L. Lewis: An Unauthorized Biography by Saul D. Alinsky
    12. The Struggle for Germany by Drew Middleton
    13. The Vital Center by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
    14. St. Thomas and the World State by Robert M. Hutchins
    15. The Pilgrimage of Western Man by Stringfellow Barr
    16. Roosevelt and the Russians by Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. and Walter Johnson
    17. Promise and Fulfilment: Palestine, 1917-1949 by Arthur Koestler
    18. Conservatism Revisited by Peter Viereck
    19. Under the Sun of Satan by Georges Bernanos
    Commonweal, December 2, 1949, pp. 244-248
  13. [+]
    The Businessman in America: The Issues and the Books (20 Reviews)
    Business & Society
    1. U.S.A.: The Permanent Revolution by Russell W. Davenport
    2. The Struggle for Survival by Eliot Janeway
    3. The Rise and Fall of Civilization by Shepard B. Clough
    4. The Nineteen Fifties Come First by Edwin G. Nourse
    5. The Welfare State by Jules Abels
    6. The New Society by Peter F. Drucker
    7. Modern Capitalism and Economic Progress by Thomas Wilson
    8. Twentieth Century Economic Thought by Glenn Edwin Hoover
    9. Economic Planning by Seymour E. Harris
    10. The Regulation of Industry by Dudley F. Pegrum
    11. The Vital Center by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
    12. Human Action by Ludwig Von Mises
    13. Making Capitalism Work by Dexter Merriam Keezer
    14. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter
    15. Capitalism by David McCord Wright
    16. Socialism by Ludwig Von Mises
    17. Authoritarianism and the Individual by Harold Metz and Charles A.H. Thomson
    18. Bureaucracy in a Democracy by Charles S. Hyneman
    19. Government and Business by Vernon A. Mund
    20. The Welfare State and the State of Human Welfare
    The Saturday Review, January 19, 1952, pp. 47-49
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    Businessman's Briefs (136 Reviews)
    Controlling Factors in Economic Development, by Harold G. Moulton
    1. Controlling Factors in Economic Development by Harold G. Moulton
    2. The Commerce of Nations by J.B. Condliffe
    3. Business and Government by Marshall E. Dimock
    4. The Vital Center by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
    5. U.S.A.: Measure of a Nation by Thomas R. Carskadon and Rudolf Modley
    6. The Economic Mind in American Civilization, 1606-1865 by Joseph Dorfman
    7. The Return of Adam Smith by George S. Montgomery, Jr.
    8. The Economic Munich by Philip Cortney
    9. Twentieth Century Economic Thought by Glenn Edwin Hoover
    10. Has Market Capitalism Collapsed? by Allen Morris Sievers
    11. Economic Planning by Seymour E. Harris
    12. Enterprise in a Free Society by Clare E. Griffin
    13. The Theory of Economic Development by Joseph A. Schumpeter
    14. Economics and the Public Welfare by Benjamin McAlester Anderson
    15. Strategy for Liberals by Irwin Ross
    16. Security for the People by Roland Willey Bartlett
    17. The Epic of American Industry by James Blaine Walker
    18. Turkey: An Economic Appraisal by Max Weston Thornburg
    19. Backgrounds of Power by Roger Burlingame
    20. Human Action by Ludwig Von Mises
    21. Maintaining Competition by Corwin D. Edwards
    22. The Consumer Interest by Persia Campbell
    23. Government Financing of Private Enterprise by Douglas Raymond Fuller
    24. Wealth and Welfare by Norman Ware
    25. Cycles: The Science of Prediction by Edward R. Dewey and Edwin F. Dakin
    26. The Basing-Point System by Fritz Machlup
    27. A Dictionary of Economics by Harold S. Sloan and Arnold J. Zurcher
    28. Effects of Taxation: Inventory Accounting and Policies by J. Keith Butters
    29. Business Insurance by Edwin Harold White
    30. Our National Debt
    31. Your 1950 Income Tax by J.K. Asser
    32. How to Finance Real Estate by Stanley L. McMichael
    33. A Primer on Budgeting by C. Oliver Wellington
    34. An Analysis of Government Life Insurance by Dan Mays McGill
    35. Handbook of Cost Accounting Methods by J.K. Lasser
    36. Money in a Maelstrom by Johan Willem Beyen
    37. What's Behind a Financial Statement by Robert G. Rankin
    38. The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
    39. Dictionary of Insurance Terms
    40. Monetary Management by E.A. Goldenweiser
    41. Lasser's Business Tax Handbook by J.K. Lasser
    42. Current Trends in Industrial Psychology
    43. Profit Sharing by Kenneth M. Thompson
    44. Trade Unions in the New Society by Harold J. Laski
    45. Job Horizons by Lloyd G. Reynolds and Joseph Shister
    46. The UAW and Walter Reuther by Irving Howe and B.J. Widick
    47. Foundations for Constructive Industrial Relations by Richmond Carter Nyman
    48. Partners in Production
    49. Teamwork in Industry by William Seward
    50. Left, Right and Center by Sidney Lens
    51. The Labor Story by Aleine Austin
    52. Union Guy by Clayton W. Fountain
    53. Labor Dictionary by Paul H. Casselman
    54. John L. Lewis: An Unauthorized Biography by Saul D. Alinsky
    55. Labor and Management in a Common Enterprise by Dorothea de Schweinitz
    56. Greater Productivity Through Cooperation by Ernest Dale
    57. Unions and Capitalism by Charles E. Lindblom
    58. The Scientific Appraisal of Management by Jackson Martindell
    59. Communicating Ideas to the Public by Stephen E. Fitzgerald
    60. Bottom-Up Management by William B. Given, Jr.
    61. The Department Store Story by Frank M. Mayfield
    62. It's Your Business by J. Lewis Simon
    63. What Every Corporation Director Should Know by Percival E. Jackson
    64. Management Planning and Control by Billy E. Goetz
    65. Vitalizing the Foreman's Role in Management by Glenn Gardiner and Robert L. Gardiner
    66. The Power of People by Charles P. McCormick
    67. Administration by Albert Lepawsky
    68. Processes of Organization and Management by Catheryn Seckler-Hudson
    69. Business Ideas Handbook by Lillian Doris
    70. Management Men and Their Methods by Luis J.A. Villalon
    71. The Development of Executive Leadership by Marvin Bower
    72. Controllership in Modern Management by Thornton F. Bradshaw
    73. Conference Methods in Industry by Henry M. Busch
    74. Graphic Presentation Simplified by Rufus R. Lutz
    75. An Introduction to Business Principles and Practices by John R. Craf
    76. Public Relations for Retailers by Tom Mahoney and Rita Hession
    77. Making Conference Programs Work by Marquis F. Stigers
    78. Public Relations in Management by J. Handly Wright and Byron H. Christian
    79. How to Sell Through Mail Order by Irvin Graham
    80. Sales Idea Book
    81. The History of an Advertising Agency by Ralph M. Hower
    82. Handbook of Sales Training
    83. Cutting Sales Costs
    84. The Technique of Selling by Kelso Sutton
    85. Merchandise Information for Successful Selling by Harry Q. Packer and Louise S. Hitchcock
    86. Advertising Dictionary of Selling Words, Phrases, and Appeals by Harvey Ronson
    87. How to Sell to Latin America by Abram A. Preciado
    88. Advertising and Editorial Layout by Charles Matlack Price
    89. Adventures in Advertising by John Orr Young
    90. Advertising Copywriting by Philip Ward Burton, J. Bowman Kreer, and John B. Gray, Jr., ...
    91. Case Histories of Successful Advertising Methods
    92. How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling by Frank Bettger
    93. The World's Biggest Doers: The Story of the Lions by Robert J. Casey and W.A.S. Douglas
    94. The Electric-Lamp Industry by Arthur Aaron Bright, Jr.
    95. Empire Oil by John P. Herrick
    96. Metal Magic by Isaac F. Marcosson
    97. Harvest Triumphant by Merrill Denison
    98. Oil! Titan of the Southwest by Carl Coke Rister
    99. Granger Country by Lloyd Lewis and Stanley Pargellis
    100. The House of Baring in American Trade and Finance by Ralph W. Hidy
    101. The Story of Tobacco in America by Joseph C. Robert
    102. The Man Who Bought the Waldorf by Thomas Ewing Dabney
    103. New England Son by Marjorie Wiggin Prescott
    104. Bristles and Brushes by Merrill Denison
    105. Wells Fargo: Advancing the American Frontier by Edward Hungerford
    106. The Great Pierpont Morgan by Frederick Lewis Allen
    107. Not So Long Ago by Lloyd Morris
    108. Making Work Human by Glen U. Cleeton
    109. Working with People by Auren Uris and Betty Shapin
    110. Winning Your Way with People by Karl Culton Ingram
    111. Problems in Personnel Administration by Richard P. Calhoon
    112. Psychology of Personnnel in Business and Industry by Roger M. Bellows
    113. Appraising Vocational Fitness by Means of Psychological Tests by Donald E. Super
    114. After the Whistle Blows by Jack Petrill
    115. The Hoover Commission Report on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government
    116. Big Government by Frank Gervasi
    117. Growth and Trends in Social Security by Earl E. Muntz
    118. The American Spirit in Europe by Halvdan Koht
    119. Business Writing by Charles M. Carey
    120. Sources of Business Information by Edwin T. Coman, Jr.
    121. It's Your Business by Alden E. Moore
    122. Railroads of Today by S. Kip Farrington
    123. The Command of Words by S. Stephenson Smith
    124. Communications Research, 1948-1949 by Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Frank Stanton
    125. Brass Hat or Executive by Lester F. Miles
    126. How to Do Business with the U.S. Government by Oliver Hoyem
    127. Cybernetics by Norbert Wiener
    128. Automotive Transportation by Wilfred Owen
    129. The Market for College Graduates by Seymour E. Harris
    130. Giant Brains by Edmund Callis Berkeley
    131. Elements of Investigative Techniques by James S. Eiseman
    132. The Toastmaster's Handbook by Herbert V. Prochnow
    133. Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis
    134. Handbook of Export Traffic by Charles J. Moran
    135. The Road Ahead by John T. Flynn
    136. Out of the Crocodile's Mouth by William Nelson
    The Saturday Review, January 28, 1950, pp. 34-37