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Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (/ ˈ ʃ l ɛ s ɪ n dʒ ər / SHLESS-in-jər; born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., American historian, educator, and public official whose best-known books explore the presidencies of Andrew Jackson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy. He served in the latter’s administration. Learn more about Schlesinger’s life and career.
Throughout his career as a historian, Schlesinger has been committed to the idea that Americans need to understand their history in order to ensure the continued success of the American experiment. “History is to the nation much as memory is to the individual,” Schlesinger says.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. has 455 books on Goodreads with 119147 ratings. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.’s most popular book is A Thousand Days: John F. Kenne...
Mar 1, 2007 · Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the historian whose more than 20 books shaped discussions for two generations about America’s past and who himself was a provocative, unabashedly liberal partisan, most...
Mar 8, 2007 · Harvard historian, Pulitzer Prize winner was special assistant to JFK. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a member of Harvard’s History Department from 1954 until 1962, died Feb. 27 in New York City. He was 89. A 1938 graduate of Harvard College, Schlesinger was a Henry Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge University, from 1938 to 1939, and a member of ...
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. (born 1917) was an outstanding historian of the United States and an influential activist in the Democratic Party. What was unique was the extent to which he brought his scholarship to bear upon his partisan politics.
