Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007)
Autor(a) de A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy (2011) — Interviewer — 520 exemplares
The Age Of Roosevelt - Complete Three Volume Set - Volume I The Crisis Of The Old Order 1919-1933 - Volume II The… (1957) 102 exemplares
The Politics of Hope and The Bitter Heritage: American Liberalism in the 1960s (The James Madison Library in American… (1963) 20 exemplares
The Best and The Last of Edwin O'Connor 8 exemplares
The Nature of a humane society : a symposium on the Bicentennial of the United States of America (1977) 5 exemplares
The Election of 2000 and the Administration of George W. Bush (Major Presidential Elections and the Administrations… (2002) 5 exemplares
John Quincy Adams 4 exemplares
The Dynamics of World Power: A documentary history of United States foreign policy 1945-1973: Volume 5, The United… (1973) 2 exemplares
Grover Cleveland: The American Presidents Series: The 22nd and 24th President, 1885-1889 and 1893-1897 (2002) 2 exemplares
Before Watergate : problems of corruption in American society (1979) — Editor; Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
The Cycles of American History 2 exemplares
Newsweek Condensed Books: Real Lace | Buried Alive | The Plundered Past| The Imperial Presidency (1974) 2 exemplares
A pilgrim's progress: Orestes A. Brownson, 1 exemplar
'FDR at Yalta' in TLS, 4 June 2005 1 exemplar
Gandhi 1 exemplar
A crise de confiança 1 exemplar
The Vital Center 1 exemplar
Benjamin Franklin 1 exemplar
Thomas Paine, Political Writer 1 exemplar
J.F.K. Remembered 1 exemplar
The Politics of Hope Some Searching Explorations Into American Politics and Culture (1962) 1 exemplar
The Age of Jackson, 1989 1 exemplar
Violence: America in the Sixties 1 exemplar
The Age of Reason 1 exemplar
John F. Kennedy 1 exemplar
Los ciclos de la historia americana 1 exemplar
The Historian and History 1 exemplar
Third Printing 1963 of Antislavery Origins of the Civil War in the United States by Dumond (1963) 1 exemplar
The American Red Cross 1 exemplar
Constantine, World Leaders Past and Present 1 exemplar
The Federal bureau of Investagation 1 exemplar
War and the American Presidency 1 exemplar
Associated Works
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor; Prefácio — 131 exemplares
Forgotten Heroes: Inspiring American Portraits from Our Leading Historians (1999) — Contribuidor — 109 exemplares
America and Russia in a Changing World; A Half Century of Personal Observation (1971) — Introdução — 16 exemplares
Labor and American politics; a book of readings (1978) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 9 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
- Nome legal
- Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr.
- Outros nomes
- Schlesinger, Arthur Bancroft (birth)
- Data de nascimento
- 1917-10-15
- Data de falecimento
- 2007-02-28
- Localização do túmulo
- Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Causa da morte
- heart attack
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
- Educação
- Harvard University (AB|1938)
Cambridge University (Peterhouse College)
Philips Exeter Academy - Ocupações
- historian
social critic
public intellectual
political activist
author - Relações
- Schlesinger, Arthur M., Sr. (father)
Schlesinger, Marian Cannon (wife|divorced)
Schlesinger, Stephen C. (son)
Schlesinger, Andrew (son)
Kinderman, Katharine S. (daughter)
Schlesinger, Robert (son) - Organizações
- Office of Strategic Services (1943-45)
Harvard University
Americans for Democratic Action
CUNY Graduate Center - Prémios e menções honrosas
- 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) (mostrar todos 11)
American Philosophical Society (1987)
National Humanities Medal (1998)
Four Freedoms Award (2003)
Paul Peck Award (2006)
Niebuhr Medal (2006) - Nota de desambiguação
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 95
- Also by
- 19
- Membros
- 8,140
- Popularidade
- #2,972
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 72
- ISBN
- 167
- Línguas
- 9
- Marcado como favorito
- 7