Artur Shlizinger

Artur Shlizinger

Historian
Country: USA

Biography of Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a renowned historian, was born in 1917 in Columbus, Ohio. He was born into a family of prominent social historian and Harvard University professor, Arthur Schlesinger Sr. At a young age, Arthur Jr. completed his education, graduating from school at the age of 15 and earning his first degree from Harvard at the age of 21.

During the war years, Schlesinger worked at the Office of War Information and the Office of Strategic Planning. In 1946, he began teaching at Harvard University. By this time, he had already published two books, with his second book, "Age of Jackson," winning the Pulitzer Prize. By the 1950s, Schlesinger had become a well-established advocate for political liberalism and an anti-communist.

In the late 1950s, Schlesinger wrote a three-volume monograph on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In 1961, he was invited by John F. Kennedy to serve as a special assistant in the newly elected president's administration. After Kennedy's assassination, Schlesinger briefly worked in Lyndon Johnson's administration before leaving the White House for good.

Subsequently, he taught at the City University of New York (CUNY) but dedicated much of his time to writing books on modern American political history. He received both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his biographies of John F. Kennedy.

In 2004, Schlesinger published his last book, "War and the American Presidency." From 2005 onwards, he occasionally contributed to the popular political blog, The Huffington Post. In 1992, his monograph "The Cycles of American History" was published in Russian.

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