| Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.  AKA Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr.
Born: 15-Oct-1917
Birthplace: Columbus, OH
Died: 28-Feb-2007
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Buried, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA
Gender: Male
Religion: Unitarian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Age of Roosevelt Military service: Office of War Information (1942-43); OSS (1943-45) Father: Arthur M. Schlesinger (historian, b. 1888, d. 1965)
Mother: Elizabeth Bancroft
Wife: Marian Cannon (m. 1940, div. 1970, four children)
Wife: Alexandra Emmet (m. 1971, one son)
Son: Robert Emmet Kennedy Schlesinger
High School: Phillips Exeter Academy (1933)
University: Harvard University (1938)
Professor: Harvard University (1946-67)
Professor: City University of New York (1967-95)
Pulitzer Prize for History 1946 for The Age of Jackson
Pulitzer Prize for Biography 1966 for A Thousand Days
National Book Award for History and Biography 1966 for A Thousand Days
OSS Agent
American Academy of Arts and Letters 1961
Americans for Democratic Action
Harvard Society of Fellows 1939-42
Kennedy Center Trustee Emeritus
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Funeral: Katharine Graham (2001)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Garbo Talks (12-Oct-1984) Himself
Author of books:
Orestes A. Brownson: A Pilgrim's Progress (1939, biography)
The Age of Jackson (1945, history)
The Vital Center (1949)
The Age of Roosevelt (1957-60, history, 3 vols.)
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (1965, history)
The Bitter Heritage: Vietnam and American Democracy, 1941-1966 (1967, history)
The Crisis of Confidence: Ideas, Power and Violence in America (1969, history)
The Imperial Presidency (1973, history)
The Cycles of American History (1986, history)
War and the Constitution: Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt (1988)
The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (1991)
Autobiography: A Life in the 20th Century, Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 (2000, memoir)
War and the American Presidency (2004, history)
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