Honors and distinction have come to ARTHUR M. S. SCHLESINGER, JR., ever since his graduation from Harvard, where he subsequently became a professor of history. In 1945, when he was twenty-eight, Mr. Schlesinger was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his bookTHE AGE OF JACKSON,and he has been widely acclaimed for his series of volumes on Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal. He is now on the, While House staff as a special assistant to President Kennedy.
In the article which follows, ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR., National Vice Chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, raises a question which has been troubling many independent voters: Is Senator Taft an isolationist? Mr. Schlesinger, an Associate Professor of History at Harvard, is an Ohioan who grew up in an academic family which migrated from Ohio State University to the University of Iowa and finally to Harvard. His book, The Age of Jackson, which appeared after his return from the Army, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in American History for 1945. In 1949 he authored a credo for liberals in The Vital Center.
Author and Associate Professor of History at Harvard, ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR., is a Unitarian who believes that it is in our national interest to have a diplomatic representative at the Vatican. We have had one before, he argues, why not now? Mr. Schlesinger won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1945 with The Age of Jackson, and provoked no little controversy with his next book. The Vital Center.