The Age of Schlesinger

"History professor Alan Brinkley of Columbia University told the Boston Globe in 1997 that Schlesinger in the first decade after World War II 'was far and away the most influential historian of Jacksonian democracy, the New Deal and probably one of the two or three most influential historians of any sort' in the United States."

The Los Angeles Times has an obituary for historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who died yesterday at age 89.

And in Slate, David Greenberg pens an appreciation.