October 16, 2003

Schlesinger will deliver Leopold Lecture

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. will ask whether it is unpatriotic to criticize the U.S. president while the nation is at war when he delivers the Leopold Lecture at Northwestern University Wednesday, Oct. 22.

“Patriotism and Dissent in Wartime,” sponsored by the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Room 107 of Harris Hall. It is free and open to the public. A reception in Room 108 will follow.

Schlesinger is a prize-winning author of numerous books about American history, politics and politicians. During World War II, he served in the Office of War Information, the Office of Strategic Services and the U.S. Army. While still a professor at Harvard, he served as Averell Harriman’s special assistant in Paris in the first months of the Marshall Plan. More than a decade later, he was special assistant to President Kennedy and a key member of the Kennedy administration.

Among Schlesinger’s book titles are “The Age of Jackson,” “The Age of Roosevelt,” “A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House,” and “A Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginnings.”