PositiveThe New York Review of BooksArthur M. Schlesinger Jr.’s engrossing autobiography of his coming of age as a man, as a historian, and as a political activist tells the remarkable story of how, in an age of competing ideologies, he emerged as a paladin of anti-Communist liberalism ... His book evokes the confident Cambridge world that formed him and is now long gone, and it is rich in anecdotes, more than a few of them at the author’s own expense. But it is also infused with deep conviction as he argues the case for liberal opposition to the absolutisms of the right and the left. Schlesinger has given us a memoir that, for all their deep differences in temperament and perception of history, bears comparison with The Education of Henry Adams, the classic American autobiography of an earlier era.
