Arthur Schlesinger

- Full name: Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger
- Born: October 15, 1917
- Birthplace: Columbus, Ohio
- Died: February 28, 2007
- Age: 89
- Literary Genre: Non-Fiction
- Awards: 2 Pulitzer Prizes, 2 National Book Awards
- Wrote speeches for John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, George McGovern

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. was an American political philosopher and author.
Career

Schlesinger is perhaps best remembered as a special adviser and historian to President John F. Kennedy during his term in office. Schlesinger was reportedly one of only two in Kennedy's circle who opposed the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, but remained silent only to not undermine Kennedy.
Schlesinger's detailed accounts of Kennedy's presidency in his 1965 book A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House earned Schlesinger the 1965 National Book Award and his second Pulitzer Prize in 1966. His writings mainly explored American liberalism, and critically analyzed American politics.
In his later years, Schlesinger blogged for the Huffington Post until he died of cardiac arrest on February 28, 2007.
Notable Works
- 1949 - The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom
- 1965 - A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
- 1973 - The Imperial Presidency

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- CUBA: THE 40 YEARS WAR. Narrated By Martin Sheen. Filmed in Havana at a Bay of Pigs Conference where five Cuban-American Veterans, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Richard Goodwin and the ex-CIA chief whose job once was to assassinate Castro -- meet Castro himself. - $25.00
  
  Forty years after the Bay of Pigs invasion, five Cuban-American veterans return to Havana to attend a conference on the invasion. It was the first time these men had set foot on Cu...
  
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- The Imperial Presidency - $16.95
  
  Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., traces the growth of presidential power over two centuries, from George Washington to George W. Bush, examining how it ...
  
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- Journals - $20.00
  
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- Journals: 1952-2000 - $20.00
  
  From his entrance into Democratic leadership circles in the 1950s through his years in the Kennedy administration and up until his last days, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., was always at...
  
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- A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 - $15.00
  
  From America's most celebrated living historian comes this "sprightly, straightforward account of the first third of an active and charmed life" (New York Times). Arthur Schlesinge...
  
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- "Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response." ~Arthur M. Schlesinger
- If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. -Arthur Schlesinger
- The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office. - Arthur M Schlesinger Jr #quote
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