Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007)
Autore di I mille giorni di John F. Kennedy
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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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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Opere di Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy (2011) — Interviewer — 521 copie
The Politics of Hope and The Bitter Heritage: American Liberalism in the 1960s (The James Madison Library in American… (1963) 20 copie
The Election of 2000 and the Administration of George W. Bush (Major Presidential Elections and the Administrations… (2002) 5 copie
The Nature of a humane society : a symposium on the Bicentennial of the United States of America (1977) 5 copie
John Quincy Adams 4 copie
The Dynamics of World Power: A documentary history of United States foreign policy 1945-1973: Volume 5, The United… (1973) 2 copie
Newsweek Condensed Books: Real Lace | Buried Alive | The Plundered Past| The Imperial Presidency (1974) 2 copie
Before Watergate : problems of corruption in American society (1979) — A cura di; Collaboratore — 2 copie
Grover Cleveland: The American Presidents Series: The 22nd and 24th President, 1885-1889 and 1893-1897 (2002) 2 copie
The Cycles of American History 2 copie
Gandhi 1 copia
A crise de confiança 1 copia
The American Red Cross 1 copia
Benjamin Franklin 1 copia
Thomas Paine, Political Writer 1 copia
J.F.K. Remembered 1 copia
The Age of Jackson, 1989 1 copia
Violence: America in the Sixties 1 copia
The Age of Reason 1 copia
John F. Kennedy 1 copia
The Historian and History 1 copia
Third Printing 1963 of Antislavery Origins of the Civil War in the United States by Dumond (1963) 1 copia
The Vital Center 1 copia
War and the American Presidency 1 copia
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An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Collaboratore; Prefazione — 132 copie
Forgotten Heroes: Inspiring American Portraits from Our Leading Historians (1999) — Collaboratore — 109 copie
America and Russia in a Changing World; A Half Century of Personal Observation (1971) — Introduzione — 16 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
- Nome legale
- Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr.
- Altri nomi
- Schlesinger, Arthur Bancroft (birth)
- Data di nascita
- 1917-10-15
- Data di morte
- 2007-02-28
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Causa della morte
- heart attack
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Harvard University (AB|1938)
Cambridge University (Peterhouse College)
Philips Exeter Academy - Attività lavorative
- historian
social critic
public intellectual
political activist
author - Relazioni
- Schlesinger, Arthur M., Sr. (father)
Schlesinger, Marian Cannon (wife|divorced)
Schlesinger, Stephen C. (son)
Schlesinger, Andrew (son)
Kinderman, Katharine S. (daughter)
Schlesinger, Robert (son) - Organizzazioni
- Office of Strategic Services (1943-45)
Harvard University
Americans for Democratic Action
CUNY Graduate Center - Premi e riconoscimenti
- 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) (mostra tutto 11)
American Philosophical Society (1987)
National Humanities Medal (1998)
Four Freedoms Award (2003)
Paul Peck Award (2006)
Niebuhr Medal (2006) - Nota di disambiguazione
- Do NOT combine this page with that of "Arthur M. Schlesinger". Thank you.
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