![]() American policies were “the brave and essential response of free men to communist aggression”. The Soviet Union, he argued, was founded upon an ideology that preached revolution and worldwide expansion. Schlesinger was a strident anti-communist who believed the origins of the Cold War were found in Marxist-Leninism. Schlesinger’s first book on the Cold War, published in 1967, placed him firmly in the Orthodox camp. After Kennedy’s assassination, Schlesinger authored perhaps the best-known account of his presidency, titled A Thousand Days. Schlesinger became friends with Kennedy, who appointed him as a special advisor to the president after his inauguration in 1961. He also became involved in politics, working as a speechwriter for Democratic presidential candidates Adlai Stevenson and John F. During World War II he worked in intelligence with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency.Īfter the war, Schlesinger took up a professorship at Harvard. ![]() ![]() ![]() The younger Schlesinger attended Harvard, where he graduated with honours in 1938. Born in Ohio, he was the eldest son of Arthur Schlesinger Snr, a prominent historian of colonial and revolutionary America. Arthur Schlesinger Jnr was an American historian, writer and advisor to US president John F. ![]()
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