"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"
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.