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For Immediate Release: January 22, 2004
Contact: Tom Krattenmaker
610-328-8534
tkratte1@swarthmore.edu
http://www.swarthmore.edu/news/
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., to Speak at Swarthmore College
Renowned historian and social critic Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., will speak at Swarthmore College on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 7:30 p.m. in Pearson-Hall Theatre, Lang Performing Arts Center. His talk, "Patriotism and Dissent in Wartime," is sponsored by the William J. Cooper Foundation and the Department of History and is free and open to the public.
Schlesinger was a professor of history at Harvard University from 1946 to 1961. He was a presidential special assistant and speech writer from 1961 to 1964 for President John F. Kennedy and later became Professor of Humanities of the City University of New York.
The author of 16 books, Schlesinger has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1946 for The Age of Jackson and in 1966 for A Thousand Days, a history of the Kennedy administration. He is also the winner of the National Book Award for both A Thousand Days and Robert Kennedy and His Times (1979). In 1998 he was awarded the prestigious National Humanities Medal.
