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In 1968, Schlesinger actively supported the presidential campaign of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, which ended with Kennedy's assassination in Los Angeles. Schlesinger wrote a popular biography, Robert Kennedy and His Times, several years later.
Jan 1, 2001 · Schlesinger’s biography, it must be said, is far from being an impartial look at Robert Kennedy. Schlesinger knew, respected and admired RFK and makes a case that the reader should share in these feelings.
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May 1, 2007 · Robert F. Kennedy and His Times, published in 1978 and the winner of the National Book Award, was a more conventional biography than A Thousand Days, based on extensive research, and it examined the entirety of Robert Kennedy's life. Although not wholly uncritical, it reflected Schlesinger's view of Kennedy as someone who had developed the ...
About the author (1978) ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR., the author of sixteen books, was a renowned historian and social critic. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1946 for The Age of Jackson and in...
Schlesinger, who worked on Robert F. Kennedy’s ill-fated 1968 presidential campaign and named his youngest son after the slain senator, wrote a 1978 biography of his friend, “Robert Kennedy ...
Jul 18, 2012 · Arthur M. Schlesinger. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Jul 18, 2012 - Biography & Autobiography - 1092 pages. The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian chronicles the short life of the Kennedy family’s...
Apr 5, 2024 · 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.
