Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. ( * October 15, 1917 in Columbus, Ohio, USA, † February 28, 2007 in New York; born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger ) was an American historian, adviser to two U.S. presidents and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He studied especially the policy of U.S. presidents such as Andrew Jackson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

Biography

From 1945 to 1962 he was a professor at Harvard University. In addition, he worked from 1961 to 1964 as Special Advisor for Presidents Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

His description of the presidential Kennedy A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House from 1965 has been awarded to his most famous work, and as his second book, the Pulitzer Prize. No less famous was his biography of the assassinated JFK - 1968 brother Robert, Robert Kennedy and his times (1978).

In his book The Age of Jackson, he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1946. His second Pulitzer Prize he won in 1966 for A Thousand Days.

His father Arthur M. Schlesinger senior (1888-1965) was also a respected historian.

Schlesinger died at the age of 89 years from the consequences of a sustained during a restaurant visit myocardial infarction.

In his honor, the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Award is named.

Selected Works

• German: The bitter legacy. Vietnam, touchstone of democracy. Joke, Bern et al 1967.

• German: The shattered confidence. Joke, Bern et al 1969.