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[[Image:ArthurMSchlesingerJr.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.]]
[[Image:ArthurMSchlesingerJr.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.]]
'''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.
'''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.
==Histories==
Schlesinger won his first Pulitzer Prize for ''The Age of Jackson, 1828-36'' (1945). The book reshaped historiography by interpreting the past in light of the present. Schlesinger's work tied the watershed events of Jackson's presidency to the liberal reforms of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], thus linking the 19th-century expansion of democracy to mid-20th-century liberal political concerns. Although this method of history met with some criticism, particularly from conservatives, ''The Age of Jackson'' critical and popular success, appealing to a wide, general audience. Through his advocacy of the political utility of scholarship, Schlesinger set a precedent for an alliance between the postwar intelligentsia and American politics.
==See also==
==See also==
* [[Reinhold Niebuhr]]
* [[Reinhold Niebuhr]]
* [[Realist]]
* [[Realist]]
==Further reading==
* Schlesinger, Jr. Arthur M. ''A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950'' (2000), autobiography to age 33.