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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007)
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr., born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger, was an American historian and social critic whose work explored the American liberalism of political leaders including Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. A Pulitzer Prize winner, Schlesinger served as special assistant and "court historian" to President Kennedy from 1961 to 1963. He wrote a detailed account of the Kennedy Administration, from the transition period to the president's state funeral, titled A Thousand Days.In 1968, Schlesinger actively supported the presidential campaign of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, which ended with the Kennedy's assassination in Los Angeles. Several years later, he wrote the biography Robert Kennedy and His Times. He popularized the term "imperial presidency" during the Nixon administration by through his book The Imperial Presidency. |
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If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
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