Schlesinger as Expert

Peter Robinson reminisces on an Arthur Schlesinger Jr. quote from the Cold War:

"Those in the U.S. who think the Soviet Union is on the verge of economic...collapse," wrote Harvard historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. in 1981, "are only kidding themselves."

And to think that the works of Arthur Schlesinger Sr. and Jr. have defined U.S. history in the twentieth century...scary.

See Thomas Silver's Coolidge and the Historians for a complete deconstruction of the revisionism of the Schlesingers and historians like them.