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Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
From SourceWatch
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. "educator and author, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for history and biography. He was appointed special assistant to President John F. Kennedy in 1961 and served in the White House throughout his administration. A co-founder of Americans for Democratic Action, he was the Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities at the Graduate School of the City University of New York before retiring in 1996." [1]
- Chair, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
- Advisory Board, Center for Public Integrity
- Emeritus Trustee, Kennedy Center
- National Endowment for the Humanities: National Humanities Medal (1998)
- Advisory Council, Fund for Independence in Journalism
Noam Chomsky was critical of Schlesinger from the left in a 1967 article, The Responsibility of Intellectuals.
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External links
- "Biography", Accessed December 2006.
