| 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)
White House Speechwriter
OSS Agent
American Academy of Arts and Letters 1961
Americans for Democratic Action
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Advisory Board
Harvard Society of Fellows 1939-42
Kennedy Center Trustee Emeritus
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Funeral: Katharine Graham (2001)
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
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Huey Long (28-Sep-1985) · Himself
Garbo Talks (12-Oct-1984) · Himself
Author of books:
Orestes A. Brownson. A Pilgrim's Progress (1939)
The Age of Jackson (1945)
The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom (1949)
The Age of Roosevelt (1957-60)
The Politics of Hope (1963)
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (1965)
The Bitter Heritage: Vietnam and American Democracy, 1941-1966 (1967)
The Crisis of Confidence: Ideas, Power and Violence in America (1969)
The Imperial Presidency (1973)
Robert Kennedy and His Times (1978)
The Cycles of American History (1986)
The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (1991)
A Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 (2000)
War and the American Presidency (2004)
Journals: 1952-2000 (2007)
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