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Arthur M. Schlesinger, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Kennedy insider who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War and remained an eminent public thinker into the 21st century, died last night. He was 89. Schlesinger suffered a heart attack.
Schlesinger won a National Book Award for Robert Kennedy and His Times and both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer for A Thousand Days, his memoir/chronicle of President John F. Kennedy's Administration.
He also won a Pulitzer for The Age of Jackson, his landmark chronicle of Andrew Jackson's administration.
