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Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. dies, 89.

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NEW YORK, March 1 (UPI) -- Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who served as an adviser in the Kennedy Administration, has died in New York at 89.

Schlesinger died Wednesday night at New York Downtown Hospital of a heart attack, after being stricken at a restaurant, his son Stephen told the New York Times.

Schlesinger was also a two-time National Book Award winner. He wrote detailed accounts of the administration of U.S. presidents Andrew Jackson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the notes he took at the Kennedy White House formed the basis for "A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in ...

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