A tribute to Arthur Schlesinger

Arthur Schlesinger
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and advisor to President John F. Kennedy, was honored Nov. 27 at the Kennedy Library in Boston.
Photo from the dust jacket of "War and the American Presidency"

A respected historian, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner and an advisor to John F. Kennedy, Arthur Schlesinger, now 89 years old, was honored at the Kennedy Library in Boston this year. Sen. Ted Kennedy and a panel of distinguished historians paid tribute to Schlesinger's influence on the writing of history and on history, itself.

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