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A Schlesinger Obituary
Over at The Reaction, co-blogger J. Kingston Pierce has posted what I think is one of the very best obituaries of the late historian and Kennedy advisor I’ve come across. It includes a great overview of Schlesinger’s life and many admirable accomplishments.
In the end: “Schlesinger, understandably inspired to his future by his father, showed an obvious curiosity about what had been and what was to come, together with a faith that history is more tutor than tyrant — indicating but not demanding repetition. We owe him greatly for what he left behind, now that he himself is history.”
You can find the full post here.
One Response to “A Schlesinger Obituary”
Displaying awesome intelligence, he once said (I no longer remember when and where) that no historic account is final, deginitive, or the ‘the truth’. Histories are, and should be, continuously reexamined and rewritten. He was commenting on his own history work.