Chronicler of Kennedy family died · 2007-03-03 18:06
Arthur M Schlesinger Jr., the eminent historian and chronicler of the Kennedy family, died in New York on Wednesday aged 89 from an apparent heart attack.
Few have written about the institution of the American presidency and occupants of the Oval Office with his flair and sweep of history. His debut book, about Andrew Jackson, won the first of his two Pulitzer Prizes in 1946; his last, War and the American Presidency, published in 2004, was a stinging indictment of the foreign policies of the current administration.
But he was, perhaps, best known for his magisterial three-volume history of the New Deal, The Age of Roosevelt, and his two books on John and Robert Kennedy, with both of whom he was intimate, serving as a White House adviser in JFK's government, Financial Times informs.
An ebullient and unabashed liberal, known for his trademark polka-dotted bow ties, he was still writing newspaper columns and other articles until shortly before his death. He was a man-about-town in New York, much as he had been in Washington half a century earlier.
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