His undergraduate thesis became his first published book, Orestes A. spent much of the next 37 years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, eventually attending Harvard College. The senior Schlesinger, having taught at Ohio State University and the University of Iowa, accepted a position at Harvard University in 1924, and Arthur Jr. Schlesinger, was himself a distinguished historian who inspired his admiring young son, originally named Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger, to change his name to Arthur M.
He was born October 15, 1917, in Columbus, Ohio. Schlesinger Jr., one of the most renowned and influential historians and intellectuals of the 20th century, died February 28, 2007, after a heart attack suffered in a Manhattan restaurant where he was dining with members of his family.
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