Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. RIP

David Schatsky | March 01, 2007, 09:26 AM

There's a nice obituary in the New York Times today for Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., the prolific, influential, fun-loving and partisan historian and Kennedy-era insider. The whole thing rewards a close reading, but the most amusing excerpt in my opinion:

Young Arthur first attended public schools in Cambridge, but his parents lost faith in public education in his sophomore year after a civics teacher informed Arthur’s class that inhabitants of Albania were called Albinos and had white hair and pink eyes. He was shipped to the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.