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Release: April 4, 1995
Contact: Patricia Coen (609/258-5764)


Arthur Schlesinger Jr. To Speak on
U.S. Foreign Policy

Princeton, N.J.--Renowned author and historian Arthur Schlesinger
Jr. will deliver the 1995 George W. Ball Lecture, entitled ``U.S.
Foreign Policy: Back to the Womb?'' at Princeton University's
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on
Thursday, April 27, at 8:00 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium.

Schlesinger, who is the Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities,
Emeritus and professor in history, emeritus, at The Graduate
School and University Center of the City University of New York,
is the author of numerous books, including two Pulitzer Prize-
winnersÑ_The Age of Jackson_ (1946), in which Schlesinger
reinterpreted the American era of Jacksonian democracy in terms of
its cultural, social, economic, and political dimensions; and _A
Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House_ (1965), a study
of the Kennedy Administration. His major historical work was _The
Age of Roosevelt_, three separate volumes entitled _The Crisis of
the Old Order, 1919 1933_ (1957), _The Coming of the New Deal_
(1958), and _The Politics of Upheaval_ (1960), that examined
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.

Schlesinger has been active in politics. He served as an adviser
to Adlai Stevenson and to John F. Kennedy during their
presidential campaigns, and later was appointed a special
assistant for Latin-American affairs during the Kennedy
administration.

The Ball Lectureship was established in honor of George Ball,
former undersecretary of state and ambassador to the U.N.

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