Schlesinger Receives Award for First Part Of 'Age of Roosevelt'

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, has been awarded the Francis Parkman Prize for 1957 by the Society of American Historians for his book, The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933. The book is the first of a projected series called The Age of Roosevelt.

Schlesinger is currently facing a $250,000 suit by Samuel Insull, Jr. for alleged libel in the volume concerning the Insull utility empire in the 1920's.

The prize, given annually for a work in American history or biography that is believed to have important literary distinction, will be presented to Schlesinger at the society's dinner in April.

This year the selection committee included R.W.G. Vail, director of the New York Historical Society, Francis Brown, editor of the New York Times Book Review, and George Dangerfield, historian.