Arthur M. Schlesinger
Historian
1888-02-27 – 1965-10-30
Arthur M. Schlesinger was an American historian who taught at Harvard and helped pioneer social and urban history. He was born on 1888-02-27 and died on 1965-10-30. He was the father of historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Books by Arthur M. Schlesinger
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The Cycles of American History
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The Imperial Presidency
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Quotes by Arthur M. Schlesinger
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Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).
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The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as President, lived for more than thirty years after the White House; Truman, who worked intensely and gaily, lived for twenty
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Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
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Around the year 2023 the American people would be well advised to go on the alert and start nailing down everything in sight.
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What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go is right?
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While the Nixon Presidency induced a momentary sense of congressional unity, a more skillful President could readily restore the customary situation where members of Congress felt more solidarity with a President of their own party than with colleagues of the opposite party
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Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.
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There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.
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Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
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