politicians, actors, writers, and artists, spanning several decades. Among his friends and associates were President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Edward M. Kennedy, Adlai E. Stevenson, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, John Kenneth Galbraith, W. Averell and Pamela Harriman, Steve and Jean Kennedy Smith, Ethel Skakel Kennedy, Ted Sorensen, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Hubert Humphrey, Henry Kissinger, Marietta Peabody Tree, Ben Bradlee, Joseph Alsop, Evangeline Bruce, William vanden Heuvel, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, Philip and Katharine Graham, Leonard Bernstein, Walter Lippmann, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Nelson Rockefeller, Lauren Bacall, Marlene Dietrich, George McGovern, Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, Jack Valenti, Bill Moyers, Richard Goodwin, Al Gore, President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. Career Education 1933 Phillips Exeter Academy 1938 A.B. summa cum laude, Harvard University 1938–1939 Henry Fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge 1939–1942 Society of Fellows, Harvard University World War II service 1942–1943 Office of War Information 1943–1945 Office of Strategic Services Educator 1946–1954 Associate Professor of History, Harvard University 1954–1962 Professor of History, Harvard University 1966 Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 1966–1994 Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center (Emeritus, 1994–2007) Democratic Party activist Among the founders of Americans for Democratic Action Speechwriter for Adlai Stevenson's two presidential campaigns in 1952 and 1956 Speechwriter for John F. Kennedy's campaign in 1960 1961–1964 Special Assistant to the President for Latin American affairs and speechwriting Speechwriter for Robert F. Kennedy's campaign in 1968 Speechwriter for George McGovern's campaign in 1972 Active in the presidential campaign of Ted Kennedy in 1980 Death On February 28, 2007, Schlesinger had a heart attack while dining with family at a steakhouse in Manhattan. He was taken to New York Downtown Hospital, where he died at the age of 89. His New York Times obituary described him as a "historian of power." He is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Works He won a Pulitzer Prize for History in 1946 for his book The Age of Jackson, covering the intellectual environment of Jacksonian democracy. His 1949 book The Vital Center made a case for the New Deal policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and was harshly critical of both unregulated capitalism and of those liberals such as Henry A. Wallace who advocated coexistence with communism. In his book The Politics of Hope (1962), Schlesinger terms conservatives the "party of the past" and liberals "the party of hope" and