Please join us for Richard Aldous, author of Arthur Schlesinger, the Imperial Historian, in conversation with David Nasaw. 6:30 pm, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017. 9100: Skylight Room, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave. (at 34th St.)

Aldous’s book is the first major biography of this preeminent historian and intellectual. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007), redefined the art of presidential biography. His best-selling biography, A Thousand Days, remains immensely influential. In this vivid account of Schlesinger’s life and career, biographer Richard Aldous draws on oral history, rarely seen archival documents, and the official Schlesinger papers to craft an invaluable portrait of a brilliant and controversial historian who framed America’s rise to global empire.

Free and open to the public. RSVP by email to biography@gc.cuny.edu