KENNEDY HISTORIAN DEAD AT 89
New York City (JFK+50) On February 28, 2007, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.*, former Special Assistant to President John F. Kennedy and New Frontier historian based at the Kennedy White House, died of natural causes at age 89.
Mr. Schlesinger, who joined JFK's presidential campaign in 1960 as a speech writer, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 for his book The Age of Jackson and also for his memoir of the Kennedy White House, A Thousand Days.
Richard Aldous writes in his biography, "The Age of Arthur,"...
"For Schlesinger, the purpose of the life of (JFK) was national renewal, the historian claiming him as part of the long arc of broad progressive tradition..."
Mr. Schlesinger wrote in his 1st edition introduction to A Thousand Days...
"Above all, (JFK) gave the world...the vision of a leader who greatly understood the terror and the hope, the diversity and the possibility of life on this planet and who made people look beyond nation and race to the future of humanity."
*Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917-2007) was born in Columbus, Ohio. His father was a social historian at Ohio State University and Harvard. AMS Jr. received his degree in 1938 from Harvard University. During WWII, he served as an intelligence officer in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). He became a full professor at Harvard in 1954.
SOURCES
"A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House," by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 1965 & 2002.
"The Age of Arthur," by Richard Parker, Fall 2017, Democracy, A Journal of Ideas, www.democracyjournal.org/
Special Assistant Arthur Schlesinger
New York City (JFK+50) On February 28, 2007, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.*, former Special Assistant to President John F. Kennedy and New Frontier historian based at the Kennedy White House, died of natural causes at age 89.
Mr. Schlesinger, who joined JFK's presidential campaign in 1960 as a speech writer, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 for his book The Age of Jackson and also for his memoir of the Kennedy White House, A Thousand Days.
Richard Aldous writes in his biography, "The Age of Arthur,"...
"For Schlesinger, the purpose of the life of (JFK) was national renewal, the historian claiming him as part of the long arc of broad progressive tradition..."
Mr. Schlesinger wrote in his 1st edition introduction to A Thousand Days...
"Above all, (JFK) gave the world...the vision of a leader who greatly understood the terror and the hope, the diversity and the possibility of life on this planet and who made people look beyond nation and race to the future of humanity."
*Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917-2007) was born in Columbus, Ohio. His father was a social historian at Ohio State University and Harvard. AMS Jr. received his degree in 1938 from Harvard University. During WWII, he served as an intelligence officer in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). He became a full professor at Harvard in 1954.
SOURCES
"A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House," by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 1965 & 2002.
"The Age of Arthur," by Richard Parker, Fall 2017, Democracy, A Journal of Ideas, www.democracyjournal.org/
Special Assistant Arthur Schlesinger
JFK Library, Boston
