Arthur Schlesinger, Historian of Power, Dies at 89
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s more than 20 books shaped discussions for two generations about Americaâs past.
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Political author, Independent columnist and Nelson Mandela's biographer Anthony Sampson dies aged 78.
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Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations secretary-general and Austrian president whose reputation was tarnished by disclosures he had hidden his past in Nazi Germany's officer corps, died on Thursday aged 88.
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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to the  late U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and a  distinguished journalist, died of a heart attack on Saturday,  his family said on Sunday. He was 79.
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Richard Lehman, a CIA official who worked with every president from John F. Kennedy to George H.W. Bush and was credited with creating the president's daily intelligence briefing, has died. He was 83
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German historian and publisher Joachim  Fest, author of a landmark biography of Adolf Hitler, has died  aged 79, German media reported on Tuesday.
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Edward Behr, a noted British foreign correspondent and writer who penned books on history, good eating and his career as a journalist, died over the weekend in Paris, his family said Sunday. He was 81.
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PARIS - Pierre Salinger, who served as President John F. Kennedy's press secretary and later had a long career with ABC News, has died at a hospital in southern France...
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Pierre Salinger, who was press secretary to Presidents John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, dies of a heart attack.
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The name is Schlesinger, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (Associated Press) So far as I know, I have never taken money from the C.I.A. (though I have worked for some organizations that have had C.I.A. connections, including, apparently, my present employer). The same canât be said for any number of prominent writers and artists, from Arthur Schlesinger [...].
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Politicians and scholars pay tribute to Schlesinger's contribution to our understanding of American power.
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Author and social critic Susan Sontag,  one of the most powerful thinkers of her generation and a  leading voice of intellectual opposition to U.S. policy after  the Sept. 11 attacks, died on Tuesday at a New York cancer  hospital. She was 71.
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Vilma Espin Guillois, the wife of acting President Raul Castro and one of the communist nation's most politically powerful women, died Monday, the Cuban government announced. She was 77.
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"Ravens in the Storm: A Personal History of the 1960s Anti-War Movement" (Scribner, 352 pages, $25), by Carl Oglesby: One of the biggest radical groups in U.S. history, Students for a Democratic Society, imploded in 1969 amid a whirl of ideology and extremism, even as opposition to the Vietnam War soared.
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Sir William Deakin, a historian who founded St. Antony's College at Oxford University, helped Winston Churchill write about World War II, and led the first British mission to Marshal Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia, has died at the age of 91, his family said.
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Kurt Waldheim, former United Nations secretary-general and Austrian president, died on Thursday aged 88 after a short but severe illness, the Austrian presidency and a family spokesman said.
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American journalist Harry W. Morgan, who interviewed Mother Teresa, John F. Kennedy and Indira Gandhi and taught generations of journalists, died Tuesday. He was 73.