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.
March 02, 2007
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917-2007)
From his obituary in yesterday's New York Times:
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