Arthur Schlesinger, author and political confidante, is dead at 89
by sernabad
Arthur Schlesinger, unapologetic liberal, author, and a long-standing member of the innermost of inner circles in Washington, D.C. for decades, died February 28, 2007, after suffering a heart attack. He was 89.
Recipient of multiple literary awards, including the Pulitzer for The Age of Jackson (1946) and A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (1966) and the National Book Award for A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (1966) and Robert Kennedy and His Times (1979), Schlesinger was invited by JFK to be a special counsel in the White House in 1961.
Schlesinger’s last book was War and the American Presidency, published in 2004.
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