Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. (b. October 15, 1917) is an American liberal political scientist and social critic whose work has focused on the philosophies and policies of U.S. presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Richard Nixon. He served as Special Assistant to the President in John F. Kennedy administration. He wrote the definitive account of the Kennedy Administration entitled "A Thousand Days."

Writings

He won a Pulitzer Prize in history for his 1945 book The Age of Jackson.

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Pulitzer Prize - 1945

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His 1949 book The Vital Center is considered a landmark work of political analysis which made a case for the New Deal policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt, while harshly critical of both unregulated capitalism and of those liberals who advocated cooperation or sympathy with totalitarian ideologies such as communism.

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1949 - New Deal - Franklin D. Roosevelt - Capitalism - Totalitarian - Communism

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His 1986 book The Cycles of American History was an early work on the relationship of cyclical generations of politics in the United States, and influenced William Strauss and Neil Howe's later work in the area.

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1986 - Generation - William Strauss and Neil Howe

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He was a contributor to The National Experience, an American history textbook.

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He has written more recently about the erosion of common civic engagement brought about by multiculturalism, in the book The Disuniting of America (1991).

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Schlesinger's Ten Most Influential People of the Second Millennium list, from the 2000 World Almanac & Book of Facts

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2000 - World Almanac & Book of Facts

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• William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
• Isaac Newton, 1642-1727
• Charles Darwin, 1809-82
• Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473-1543
• Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642
• Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
• Christopher Columbus, 1451-1506
• Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65
• Johann Gutenberg, c. 1397-1468
• William Harvey, 1578-1657

Autobiography: A Life in the 20th Century, Innocent Beginnings, 1917?1950 (2000)

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