Thursday, March 01, 2007
RIP Arthur Schlesinger, 15 Oct. 1917 - 28 Feb. 2007
Pulitzer Prize- and the National Book Award-winning historian Arthur Schlesinger died at age 89 of a heart attack last night: "Mr. Schlesinger saw life as a walk through history. He wrote that he could not stroll down Fifth Avenue without wondering how the street and the people on it would have looked a hundred years ago."
More at NYT (with links to reviews of seven of his histories/biographies), WaPo, the Guardian.
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