Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1913, Sept. 16 | Born, Huntington, N.Y. |
1929-1932 | Attended St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H. |
1936 | B.A., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Published These Are the Days. New Haven: Yale Daily News |
1939 | M.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
1939-1941 | Instructor in government, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. |
1941 | Married Claude Chevreux |
1942-1945 | Intelligence service (civilian), Office of Strategic Services |
1946-1948 | Editor, Auburn Citizen Advertiser, Auburn, N.Y. |
1947 | Published A Pattern of Politics. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock |
1948-1956 | Editorial writer, New York Herald Tribune, New York, N.Y.; chief editorial writer, 1952-1956 |
1956 | Edited The Politics of Woodrow Wilson. New York: Harper |
1956-1967 | Director, Twentieth Century Fund, New York, N.Y. |
1957 | Published with Raymond Aron Diversity of Worlds. New York: Reynal |
1962 | Published The Public Happiness, New York: Atheneum |
1962-1964 | Special consultant on the arts to President John F. Kennedy |
1963-1964 | Moderator, “Books for Our Time,” television program |
1967-1973 | Parks commissioner and Administrator of Recreation and Cultural Affairs, New York, N.Y. |
1974 | Published Alive in the City: Memoirs of an Ex-Commissioner. New York: Scribner |
1978 | Published with Phyllis Robinson Open Spaces: The Life of American Cities, New York: Harper and Row and When LaGuardia Was Mayor: New York's Legendary Years. New York: Norton |
1991 | Published Woodrow Wilson. New York: Scribner |
1997, Apr. 5 | Died, New York, N.Y. |