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An American historian and social critic whose work explored the American liberalism of political leaders including Franklin D.
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (October 15, 1917–February 28, 2007) born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger, was an American historian and social critic whose work explored the American liberalism of political leaders including Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. A Pulitzer Prize winner, Schlesinger served as special assistant and "court historian" to President Kennedy from 1961 to 1963. He wrote a detailed account of the Kennedy Administration, from the transition period to the president's state funeral, titled A Thousand Days.

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All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

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Science and technology revolutionize our lives but memory tradition and myth frame our response.

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Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

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What we need is a rebirth of satire of dissent of irreverence of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.