Early Life and Career
James Rodney Schlesinger was born in New York City, the son of Jewish parents, Julius and Rhea Lillian Schlesinger. His mother was a Lithuanian emigrant from what was then part of the Russian Empire. James was educated at the Horace Mann School and Harvard University, where he earned a B.A. (1950), M.A. (1952), and Ph.D. (1956) in economics. Between 1955 and 1963 he taught economics at the University of Virginia and in 1960 published The Political Economy of National Security. In 1963, he moved to the Rand Corporation, where he worked until 1969, in the later years as director of strategic studies.
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