Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Cycles of American History (1999), p. 112
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Solzhenitsyn is a man of exemplary nobility and extreme bravery. A powerful novelist and an indispensable historian, he is an artist and moralist who has taken unto himself the suffering of his countrymen and has magnificently indicted a monstrous system in the name of the Soviet people and of Russian history.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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About Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. (October 15 1917 – April 28 2007) was an American historian and social critic whose work has explored the liberalism of American political leaders including Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert Kennedy, as well as the men who surrounded Andrew Jackson. He served as Special Assistant to the President in John F. Kennedy's administration. He wrote a detailed account of the Kennedy Administration entitled A Thousand Days.
About Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. (October 15 1917 – April 28 2007) was an American historian and social critic whose work has explored the liberalism of American political leaders including Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert Kennedy, as well as the men who surrounded Andrew Jackson. He served as Special Assistant to the President in John F. Kennedy's administration. He wrote a detailed account of the Kennedy Administration entitled A Thousand Days.
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