Background
SCHLESINGER, Arthur was born on October 15, 1917 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Son of the late Arthur Meier and Elizabeth Bancroft Sehlesinger.
SCHLESINGER, Arthur was born on October 15, 1917 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Son of the late Arthur Meier and Elizabeth Bancroft Sehlesinger.
AB summa cum laude, Harvard University, 1938; member Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 1939-1942; postgraduate (Henry fellow), Cambridge (England) University, 1938-1939; honorary degrees, Muhlenberg College, 1950; honorary degrees, Bethany College, 1956; honorary degrees, U. N.B., 1966; honorary degrees, New School Social Research, 1966; honorary degrees, Tusculum College, 1966; honorary degrees, Rhode Island College, 1969; honorary degrees, Aquinas College, 1971; honorary degrees, Western New England College, 1974; honorary degrees, Ripon College, 1976; honorary degrees, Iona College, 1977; honorary degrees, Utah State University, 1978; honorary degrees, U. Louisville, 1978; honorary degrees, Northeastern U., 1981; honorary degrees, Rutgers University, 1982; honorary degrees, State University of New York-Albany, 1984; honorary degrees, U. N.H., 1985; honorary degrees, U. Oxford, 1987; honorary degrees, Akron U., 1987; honorary degrees, Brandeis U., 1988; honorary degrees, U. Massachusetts, Boston, 1990; honorary degrees, Hofstra U., 1991; honorary degrees, Adelphi U., 1992; honorary degrees, Dominican College, 1992; honorary degrees, Mount Ida College, 1993; honorary degrees, Middlebury College, 1994; honorary degrees, Roosevelt U., 1995; honorary degrees, Lynn U., 1996; honorary degrees, Northern Illinois U., 1996.
With, Office of War Information, 1942-1943;
with, Office of Strategic Services, 1943-1945;
associate professor of history, Harvard University, 1946-1954;
professor, Harvard University, 1954-1962;
visiting fellow, Institute Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1966;
Schweitzer professor humanities, CUNY, 1966-1995. Consultant Economics Cooperation Administration, 1948, Mutual Security Administration,1951-1952. Special assistant to President of the United States, 1961-1964.
Member jury Cannes FilmFestival, 1964. Member Adlai E. Stevenson campaign staff, 1952, 56. Chairman Franklin Delano Roosevelt Four Freedoms Foundation, since 1983.
Trustee Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, Twentieth Century Fund. Advisory Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library.
Orestes A. Brownson: A Pilgrim’s Progress 1939, The Age of Jackson 1945, The Vital Center (English title The Politics of Freedom) 1949, The General and the President (with R. H. Rovere) 1951, The Age of Roosevelt: Vol. I The Crisis of the Old Order 1957, Vol. II The Coming of the New Deal 1958, Vol.
Ill The Politics of Upheaval 1960, Kennedy or Nixon 1960, The Politics of Hope 1963, Paths of American Thought (editor with Morton White) 1963, A Thousand Days. John F. Kennedy in the White House, 1965, The Bitter Heritage: Vietnam and American Democracy 1941-1966 1967, The Crisis of Confidence 1969, History of American Presidential Elections (editor with F. L. Israel) 1971, The Imperial Presidency 1973, Robert Kennedy and His Times 1978, Cycles of American History 1986. Articles in various magazines and newspapers.
Served with Army of the United States, 1945. Member American History Association, Organisation American Historians, Society American Historians (president 1989-1992), American Academy and Institute Arts and Letters (president 1981-1984, chancellor 1984-1987), American Philosophical Society, Massachusetts History Society, Colonial Society Massachusetts, Russian Academy Sciences, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (co-chairman since 1983), American Civil Liberties Union, Council Foreign Rels., Americans for Democratic Action (national chairman 1952-1954), Century Association, Knickerbocker Club, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Marian Cannon, 1940 (divorced 1970). Children: Stephen Cannon, Katharine Kinderman, Christina, Andrew Bancroft. Married Alexandra Emmet, July 9, 1971.
1 son, Robert Emmet Kennedy.