Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007)
Forfatter af Kennedys tusinde dage i Det hvide Hus / (Overs. efter A thousand days)
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. is renowned as a historian, a public intellectual, & a political activist. He served as a special assistant to President John F. Kennedy; won two Pulitzer Prizes, in 1946 for "The Age of Jackson" & in 1966 for "A Thousand Days," & in 1998 was the recipient of the National vis mere Humanities Medal. He lives in New York City. (Publisher Provided) Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., 1917 - 2007 U.S. historian Arthur Schlesinger was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1917 and was educated at Harvard University. Schlesinger was an associate professor of history at Harvard from 1946-1954 and professor from 1954-1961. He was a campaign staff member for the Democratic presidential candidates in 1952, 1956 and 1960. When John F. Kennedy took office after the 1960 campaign, he appointed Schlesinger special assistant. He resigned, in 1964, after Kennedy's assassination and then became professor of Humanities at the City University of New York in 1967. Schlesinger wrote an account of the Kennedy administration titled "A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House" (1965), which won the Pulitzer Prize for a biography in 1966. He also wrote "The Age of Jackson" (1945), which won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1946, "The Age of Roosevelt" (3 vol., 1957-60), "The Politics of Hope" (1963), "The Bitter Heritage" (1967), "The Imperial Presidency" (1973), "Robert Kennedy and His Times" (1978), and "The Cycles of American History" (1986). He died on February 28, 2007 at the age of 89 (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy (2011) — Interviewer — 520 eksemplarer
The Age Of Roosevelt - Complete Three Volume Set - Volume I The Crisis Of The Old Order 1919-1933 - Volume II The… (1957) 102 eksemplarer
A Thousand Days: John F Kennedy in the White House (Vol 1) 21 eksemplarer
The Politics of Hope and The Bitter Heritage: American Liberalism in the 1960s (The James Madison Library in American… (1963) 20 eksemplarer
The Best and The Last of Edwin O'Connor 8 eksemplarer
The Nature of a humane society : a symposium on the Bicentennial of the United States of America (1977) 5 eksemplarer
The Election of 2000 and the Administration of George W. Bush (Major Presidential Elections and the Administrations… (2002) 5 eksemplarer
John Quincy Adams 4 eksemplarer
The Dynamics of World Power: A documentary history of United States foreign policy 1945-1973: Volume 5, The United… (1973) 2 eksemplarer
Grover Cleveland: The American Presidents Series: The 22nd and 24th President, 1885-1889 and 1893-1897 (2002) 2 eksemplarer
Before Watergate : problems of corruption in American society (1979) — Redaktør; Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
The Cycles of American History 2 eksemplarer
Newsweek Condensed Books: Real Lace | Buried Alive | The Plundered Past| The Imperial Presidency (1974) 2 eksemplarer
A pilgrim's progress: Orestes A. Brownson, 1 eksemplar
'FDR at Yalta' in TLS, 4 June 2005 1 eksemplar
Gandhi 1 eksemplar
A crise de confiança 1 eksemplar
Kennedys tusinde dage i Det Hvide Hus - Bind 2 1 eksemplar
The Vital Center 1 eksemplar
Benjamin Franklin 1 eksemplar
Thomas Paine, Political Writer 1 eksemplar
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The American Presidents Series: The 32nd President, 1933-1945 1 eksemplar
J.F.K. Remembered 1 eksemplar
The Politics of Hope Some Searching Explorations Into American Politics and Culture (1962) 1 eksemplar
The Age of Jackson, 1989 1 eksemplar
Violence: America in the Sixties 1 eksemplar
The Age of Reason 1 eksemplar
John F. Kennedy 1 eksemplar
Los ciclos de la historia americana 1 eksemplar
The Historian and History 1 eksemplar
The Age of Roosevelt: The Politics of Upheaval 1 eksemplar
Third Printing 1963 of Antislavery Origins of the Civil War in the United States by Dumond (1963) 1 eksemplar
The American Red Cross 1 eksemplar
Constantine, World Leaders Past and Present 1 eksemplar
The Federal bureau of Investagation 1 eksemplar
War and the American Presidency 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Bidragyder; Forord — 131 eksemplarer
Forgotten Heroes: Inspiring American Portraits from Our Leading Historians (1999) — Bidragyder — 109 eksemplarer
America and Russia in a Changing World; A Half Century of Personal Observation (1971) — Introduktion — 16 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
- Juridisk navn
- Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr.
- Andre navne
- Schlesinger, Arthur Bancroft (birth)
- Fødselsdato
- 1917-10-15
- Dødsdag
- 2007-02-28
- Begravelsessted
- Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Dødssted
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Dødsårsag
- heart attack
- Bopæl
- New York, New York, USA
- Uddannelse
- Harvard University (AB|1938)
Cambridge University (Peterhouse College)
Philips Exeter Academy - Erhverv
- historian
social critic
public intellectual
political activist
author - Relationer
- Schlesinger, Arthur M., Sr. (father)
Schlesinger, Marian Cannon (wife|divorced)
Schlesinger, Stephen C. (son)
Schlesinger, Andrew (son)
Kinderman, Katharine S. (daughter)
Schlesinger, Robert (son) - Organisationer
- Office of Strategic Services (1943-45)
Harvard University
Americans for Democratic Action
CUNY Graduate Center - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Pulitzer Prize (1946 and 1966)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1955)
Bancroft Prize (1958)
Francis Parkman Prize (1958)
National Book Award (1966 and 1979)
Golden Plate Award (1978) (vis alle 11)
American Philosophical Society (1987)
National Humanities Medal (1998)
Four Freedoms Award (2003)
Paul Peck Award (2006)
Niebuhr Medal (2006) - Oplysning om flertydighed
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