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Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. (b. October 15 , 1917 ) is an American historian and social critic whose work has focused on the philosophies and policies of U.S. Presidents , including Andrew Jackson , Franklin D. Roosevelt , John F. Kennedy , and Richard Nixon . He served as Special Assistant to the President in John F. Kennedy's administration. He wrote the definitive account of the Kennedy Administration entitled "''A Thousand Days''." He was born in Columbus, Ohio , the son of Arthur M. Schlesinger ( 1888 - 1965 ), who was an influential social historian at Ohio State and Harvard. His own son, Stephen Schlesinger is a social scientist well known for his work on the United Nations , and director of the World Policy Institute . Schlesinger is a prolific Contributor To Liberal Theory and is a passionate and articulate voice for Kennedyism and the Great Society . He is admired for his wit, scholarship, and devotion to the liberal agenda, writing several books over the course of his career. He coined the term " Imperial Presidency " during the Nixon administration. CAREER Education
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WRITINGS He won a Pulitzer Prize in history for his 1945 book ''The Age of Jackson''. His 1949 book ''The Vital Center'' made a case for the New Deal policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt , while harshly critical of both unregulated capitalism and of those liberals who advocated cooperation or sympathy with Communism . His 1986 book ''The Cycles of American History'' was an early work on cycles in politics in the United States; it was influenced by his father's work on cycles. He became a leading opponent of Multiculturalism in the 1980s; ''The Disuniting of America'' (1991). WORKS
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QUOTE ''If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.'' REFERENCE
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