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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, former professor of Hhistory has won this year's National Book Award in History and Biography for A Thousand Days, his account of the Kennedy Administration.
The citation, given to Schlesinger Tuesday in New York, praised him for adding "abundantly to the world's brief knowledge of the Kennedy period."
Before joining Kennedy in 1961 as a special advisor, Schlesinger had been a full professor of History at Harvard since 1954 and an associate professor from 1946 to 1954. He is presently completing his three volume biography of Franklin Roosevelt at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, N.J.
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