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Definition of Arthur Schlesinger
1. Noun. United States historian and advisor to President Kennedy (born in 1917).
Generic synonyms: Historian, Historiographer
2. Noun. United States historian (1888-1965).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arthur Schlesinger
Literary usage of Arthur Schlesinger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. One America Indivisible: A National Conversation on American Pluralism and by Sheldon Hackney (1999)
"The flowering over the last two decades of the cult of ethnicity, says Arthur
Schlesinger Jr. "challenges the unifying concept of a unique American identity ..."
2. India and the United States: Estranged Democracies, 1941-1991 by Dennis Kux (1994)
"When Arthur Schlesinger began by asking about the role of intellectuals in India,
Nehru just waffled, talking in circles and not answering. ..."
3. Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture, 1790-1990 by Nian-Sheng Huang (1994)
"... a tendency that the historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. lamented in "The Decline
of Greatness" (1968) and the sociologist Richard Sennett investigated in ..."