BooksThe Historical Mind and the Literary ImaginationAs historians, Messrs. Vidal and Updike are good novelists and playwrights.By Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.June 1974 Issue ShareSave About the AuthorArthur Schlesinger, Jr.Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and a special assistant to President John F. Kennedy. He taught at Harvard University and the City University of New York.