Arthur M. Schlesinger
Arthur M. Schlesinger
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Sr.was an American historian who taught at Harvard University, pioneering social history and urban history. He was a Progressive Era intellectual who stressed material causesand downplayed ideology and values as motivations for historical actors. He was highly influential as a director of PhD dissertations at Harvard for three decades, especially in the fields of social, women's, and immigration history. His son, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., also both taught at Harvard and was a noted historian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth27 February 1888
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.