A Thousand Days

Historian, Harvard professor, and presidential confidant Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. traveled with President John F. Kennedy through the first thousand days of his presidency. In A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House , Schlesinger chronicles their time together and offers an intimate portrait of one of the most important and dramatic presidencies in modern history.      The hundreds of photographs and documents from the John F. Kennedy Library, the Kennedy family archives, and other sources capture private meetings with the president, the Bay of Pigs invasion, civil rights movements, and more. Among the photos are official White House memoranda, public speeches, social occasions with friends Jackie Onassis, Marilyn Monroe; and private moments with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and children Caroline and John Jr.