The journalist Murray Kempton said that intellectual contentment in America resides in not giving a damn about Harvard. I attained that blessed state many years ago, though it is more easily ...

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Kennedy insider who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War and remained an eminent public thinker into the 21st ...

He was a man who loved American history, tall women, small children, dry martinis, big steaks, epic movies and every He was a man who loved American history, tall women, small children, dry martinis, ...

Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., was a leading authority on the history of the United States. Schlesinger was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1917. His father, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Sr., was a prominent ...

“Fearless inquiry is essential to give people the knowledge that makes democracy possible and that keeps it sane.” — Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Read An Appreciation from Center Founder Chuck Lewis Arthur ...

I am not sure what I would be doing as Special Assistant,” Schlesinger, right, said when John F. Kennedy asked him to work at the White House. “Well, I am not sure what I will be doing as President ...

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Kennedy insider who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War has died at 89. Schlesinger suffered a heart attack ...

Presumed historical realities, Schlesinger observed, are often subtle if not outright distortions of the truth. Predictably, the volume of contradictory information and the associated historical ...

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., liberal historian-cum-political pamphleteer, touched base at the Village Independent Democrats last week. And like his mission in behalf of Jack Kennedy in 1960 to the ...

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., the subject of a briskly readable and instructive new biography, would probably have taken issue with its title. He did not see himself as a chronicler of empire or as an ...

I felt that I knew Arthur long before I actually met him, because of his books. Grad school was a I felt that I knew Arthur long before I actually met him, because of his books. Grad school was a bit ...