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Article: Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr.
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Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. 1917-2007, American historian and public official, b. Columbus, Ohio, as Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; son of Arthur Meier
Schlesinger
. He achieved early success as a historian with the publication, the year after his graduation, of his Harvard honors thesis,
Orestes A. Brownson: A Pilgrim's Progress
(1939). In World War II he served with the Office of War Information (1942-43) and the Office of Strategic Services (1943-45), and he was professor of history at Harvard from 1946 to 1961. His
Age of Jackson
(1945), a brilliant reinterpretation of the social, political, and economic aspects of the era, stimulated numerous American historians to reexamine ...
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