![]() ![]() “The Age of Jackson” won the Pulitzer Prize for history and sold more than 90,000 copies in its first year. I will miss his sharp intelligence, his delightful wit, and his broad understanding of times past and present.”Ī prolific author, Schlesinger first attracted national attention as a historian with his 1945 book on President Andrew Jackson, published when Schlesinger was 27. ![]() Schlesinger Library on the History of Women, named in honor of his parents. “He has also been a great friend to Harvard, and it has been my privilege to witness firsthand his devotion to the Radcliffe Institute’s Elizabeth and Arthur M. “Arthur Schlesinger made history – as a brilliant historian and as an influential presidential adviser,” said Radcliffe Dean and Harvard President-elect Drew G. Kennedy in the White House,” winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1966. ![]() After Kennedy’s death, he wrote an account of his administration, ”A Thousand Days: John F. He took a leave of absence from the Harvard faculty in 1961 to serve as a special assistant to President John F. ![]() He was 89.Ī 1938 graduate of Harvard College, Schlesinger was a Henry Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge University, from 1938 to 1939, and a member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard from 1939 to 1942. Schlesinger Jr., a member of Harvard’s History Department from 1954 until 1962, died Feb. ![]()
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