Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual. The son of the influential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. and a specialist in American history, much of Schlesinger's work explored the history of 20th-century American liberalism. In particular, his work focused on leaders such as Harry S. Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. In the 1952 and 1956 presidential campaigns, he was a primary speechwriter and adviser to the Democratic presidential nominee...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth15 October 1917
CountryUnited States of America
Righteousness is easy in retrospect.
Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.
Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.
Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go is right?
There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.