Arthur Schlesinger Jr Dead

The last of the great Liberal Icons has passed away, the author of A Thousand Days, the record of President Kennedy's Administration between 1961 - 1963. It should be noted he was a Liberal Democrat, he wanted to impeach Nixon but not Clinton, thus his critical review of President George W. Bush. In the Mid 1990s he had the responsibility to pick historians to rank American Presidents it was no great suprise that his group chose Kennedy and Johnson over Reagan.

Here are some of the news reports on the death.

New York Times

on the death of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Even the NYT states he was a ' provocative, unabashedly liberal partisan ' in other words the type the NYT likes compared to Republicans and Conservatives.

Newsweek on Schlesinger, fair if not stressing his neglect to mention some of the faults of JFK.

Schlesinger on Reagan, only a Liberal Democrat could write a semi negative article like that, worth a read and you see why even the NYT had to say he was a Partisan Liberal but a interesting character and writer.