ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR. JOURNALS
1952-2000, Edited by Andrew Schlesinger and Stephen
Schlesinger
ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR. JOURNALS 1952-2000, Edited by Andrew Schlesinger and Stephen Schlesinger Stephen Schlesinger is also MaximsNews Senior Editor and Columnist. In 1962 the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. was able to comment with equal assurance on both of the Monroes within his orbit: Marilyn (as in “Happy Birthday, Mr. President”) and James (as in Monroe Doctrine). What’s more, he made these unrelated remarks closely enough in time for them to appear on the same page of the 894-page new volume of his journals. See review: The New York Times: Books of The Times
Bio from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. first joined President Kennedy’s campaign as a speechwriter in 1960. The following year he was appointed Special Assistant to the President and held this post until 1964. An avid supporter of liberal democratic causes, Mr. Schlesinger was also the author of several important books, including The Age of Jackson, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945. Perhaps his most well known work, however, is his memoir of the Kennedy White House, A Thousand Days, which won him his second Pulitzer. In 1966, Mr. Schlesinger became Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities at the City University of New York. He returned to speechwriting, however, during Robert Kennedy’s 1968 campaign and George S. McGovern’s 1972 campaign. Throughout his political career, Mr. Schlesinger has remained an active scholar, publishing several more historical works and establishing himself as the leading intellectual of postwar liberalism. 1917 October 15, Born, Columbus, Ohio 1938 A. B., Harvard University 1938-1939 Postgraduate Henry Fellow, Cambridge University, England 1939-1942 Member, Harvard Society of Fellows 1942-1943 Office of War Information 1943-1945 Office of Strategic Services 1945 United States Army 1946-1954 Associate Professor, Harvard 1952 Member, Adlai Stevenson campaign 1953-1954 National chairman, Americans for Democratic Action 1954-1961 Professor, Harvard 1956 Member, Adlai Stevenson campaign 1960 Speechwriter, John F. Kennedy campaign 1961-1963 Special Assistant to President Kennedy 1963-1964 Special Assistant to President Johnson 1966 Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton University 1966-1994 Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities, City University of New York 1968 Speechwriter, Robert Kennedy campaign 1972 Speechwriter, George S. McGovern campaign 1981-1984 President, American Institute of Arts and Letters 1983-present Co-chairman, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute 1984-1987 Chancellor, American Institute of Arts and Letters 1989-1992 Society of American Historians 2007 Died February 28 AuthorOrestes A. Brownson: A Pilgrim’s Progress, 1939. The Age of Jackson, 1945 The Vital Center, 1949 The General and the President, (with Richard Rovere) 1939 The Crisis of the Old Order, 1957 The Coming of the New Deal, 1958 The Politics of Upheaval, 1960 Kennedy or Nixon,1960 The Politics of Hope,1963 A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, 1965 The Bitter Heritage: Vietnam and American Democracy,1967 The Crisis of Confidence: Ideas, Powers and Violence in America, 1969 The Imperial Presidency, 1967 Robert F. Kennedy and His Times,1978 The Cycles of American History, 1986 The Disuniting of America, 1991 A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 2000 War and the American Presidency, 2004 Mr. Schlesinger, Jr. has also been a film reviewer for Show magazine, 1962-1964 Vogue, 1967-1972 Saturday Review, 1977-1980 American Heritage, 1981-1982 Source:"Arthur Meier Schlesinger,
Jr." Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale
Research, 1998. See also:Kennedy Library Forum: A Tribute to Arthur Schlesinger (pdf)
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