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Schlesinger, a two-time Pulitzer prize winner, author of over two dozen works on American politics and history, and a chief political advisor to John F. Kennedy ’40, moved from one big room to the next, rising from his Thayer dorm to occupy an elite office in...
“This is an immense loss for everyone who enjoys reading history,” David Gergen, director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government, said.
Schlesinger came back to teach at Harvard in 1947, but his work—and his thoughts—never strayed far from Washington DC. He warned of the dangers posed by Stalinism and counseled Democratic candidates until he joined the John F. Kennedy’s administration as an...
Schlesinger’s glowing portrayal of Roosevelt and Kennedy has since been criticized as overly partisan, but Schlesinger’s ever-present closeness will likely be remembered not as a fault, but as the mark of an articulate, scholarly lion of liberal causes.
McNamara and Milner will be followed by Kennedy School of Government student Richard Crowder, who will deliver the graduate English oration.