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De Tocqueville, Alexis. (1805 - 1895). [Schlesinger, Arthur Meier. (1917 - 2007)] [Schlesinger Sr., Arthur M.. (1888 - 1965). . American Institutions - THE COPY OF ARTHUR SCHLESINGER. Boston & Cambridge: Sever, Francis & Co.. 1870. Translated by Henry Reeve ; revised and edited, with notes, by Francis Bowen. xxiii, 559 p. 8vo. (20 cm). Red and green cloth, soiled, corners chipped, small tears and losses to green spine, inner gutters cracked. Bookplate of Arthur Schlesinger Sr. to inside front board, with his ownership signature on the front free endpage in ink "A. M. Schlesinger / Columbus, Jan. 1917", inscribed beneath in pencil by him "For AMS Jr." to his son, who would go on to himself become the influential Pulitzer-prize winning American historian and social critic who served as special assistant and "court historian" to President Kennedy from 1961 to 1963.
The American historian Arthur Meier Schlesinger Sr. taught at Harvard University, pioneering social history and urban history. He was a Progressive Era intellectual who stressed material causes (such as economic profit and conflict between businessmen and farmers) and downplayed ideology and values as motivations for historical actors.
De Tocqueville, Alexis. (1805 - 1895). [Schlesinger, Arthur Meier. (1917 - 2007)] [Schlesinger Sr., Arthur M.. (1888 - 1965). . American Institutions - THE COPY OF ARTHUR SCHLESINGER. Boston & Cambridge: Sever, Francis & Co.. 1870. Translated by Henry Reeve ; revised and edited, with notes, by Francis Bowen. xxiii, 559 p. 8vo. (20 cm). Red and green cloth, soiled, corners chipped, small tears and losses to green spine, inner gutters cracked. Bookplate of Arthur Schlesinger Sr. to inside front board, with his ownership signature on the front free endpage in ink "A. M. Schlesinger / Columbus, Jan. 1917", inscribed beneath in pencil by him "For AMS Jr." to his son, who would go on to himself become the influential Pulitzer-prize winning American historian and social critic who served as special assistant and "court historian" to President Kennedy from 1961 to 1963.
The American historian Arthur Meier Schlesinger Sr. taught at Harvard University, pioneering social history and urban history. He was a Progressive Era intellectual who stressed material causes (such as economic profit and conflict between businessmen and farmers) and downplayed ideology and values as motivations for historical actors.