The Boston Globe, March 3rd, 2007
IT IS A great loss to lovers of serious history that Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., who died this week at age 89, never devoted himself full-time to tempered accounts of the past. He was in his mid-20s when he wrote his provocative "Age of Jackson," which discerned a strong urban component in the coalition that made Andrew Jackson president. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1946. What a treat it would have been to read his versions of the lives and times of other great and long-dead presidents, from George Washington to Woodrow Wilson. Yet Schlesinger chose to harness his gifts to more immediate concern...
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