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| − | [[Image:ArthurMSchlesingerJr.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.]]
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| − | '''Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.''' (1917-2007) was an American, [[liberal]] [[historian]], social critic, and [[Pulitzer Prize]] winner who celebrated the liberalism of [[Andrew Jackson]] and the [[New Deal]] and wrote important biographies of [[John F. Kennedy]] and [[Robert F. Kennedy]].<ref>[http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=3895 Houghton-Mifflin; author detail]</ref> He was a leading opponent of Communism at home and abroad. | + | | name = Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
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| | + | | birth_date = October 15, 1917 |
| | + | | birth_place = Columbus, Ohio |
| | + | | death_date = February 28, 2007 |
| | + | | death_place = New York City |
| | + | | nationality = American |
| | + | | spouse = Marian Cannon,<br /> Alexandra Emmet Allan<ref>[http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-03583.html Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr.]</ref> |
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| | + | '''Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr.''' (October 15, 1917 - February 28, 2007) was an American, [[liberal]] [[historian]], social critic, and [[Pulitzer Prize]] winner who celebrated the liberalism of [[Andrew Jackson]] and the [[New Deal]] and wrote important biographies of [[John F. Kennedy]] and [[Robert F. Kennedy]].<ref>[http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=3895 Houghton-Mifflin; author detail]</ref> He was a leading opponent of Communism at home and abroad. |
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| | + | ==Early life== |
| | + | He was born as Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger in Columbus, Ohio on October 15, 1917, to Elizabeth Harriet and Arthur M. Schlesinger.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=BcY1AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA119 Building: Letters 1960-1975]</ref> |
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| | ==Histories== | | ==Histories== |
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| | * Cole, Donald B. "In Retrospect: The Age of Jackson: After Forty Years." ''Reviews in American History'' 1986 14(1): 149-159. 0048-7511 | | * Cole, Donald B. "In Retrospect: The Age of Jackson: After Forty Years." ''Reviews in American History'' 1986 14(1): 149-159. 0048-7511 |
| | * Nuechterlein, James A. "Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Discontents of Postwar American Liberalism." ''Review of Politics'' 1977 39(1): 3-40. 0034-6705 critique of his realism by conservative political scientist | | * Nuechterlein, James A. "Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Discontents of Postwar American Liberalism." ''Review of Politics'' 1977 39(1): 3-40. 0034-6705 critique of his realism by conservative political scientist |
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| | ===Primary sources=== | | ===Primary sources=== |
| | * Schlesinger, Jr. Arthur M. ''A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950'' (2000), autobiography to age 33. | | * Schlesinger, Jr. Arthur M. ''A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950'' (2000), autobiography to age 33. |
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| | == References == | | == References == |
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