Wilentz

Sean Wilentz , a professor of history at Princeton University, is the author or editor of several books, including Chants Democratic and The Rise of American Democracy . He has also written for The New York Times , the Los Angeles Times , The New Republic , and other publications. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. , (1917-2007) was the preeminent political historian of our time. For more than half a century, he was a cornerstone figure in the intellectual life of...See more

Sean Wilentz , a professor of history at Princeton University, is the author or editor of several books, including Chants Democratic and The Rise of American Democracy . He has also written for The New York Times , the Los Angeles Times , The New Republic , and other publications. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. , (1917-2007) was the preeminent political historian of our time. For more than half a century, he was a cornerstone figure in the intellectual life of the nation and a fixture on the political scene. He won two Pulitzer prizes for The Age of Jackson (1946) and A Thousand Days (1966), and in 1988 received the National Humanities Medal. He published the first volume of his autobiography, A Life in the Twentieth Century , in 2000. See less