A Life in Our Times
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Book Overview
The richly adventurous memoirs of one of the most dazzling public figures to dominate the American scene over the last decades "As a raconteur and a literary stylist he stands with the best. . . . As... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0395305098
ISBN13:9780395305096
Release Date:January 1983
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin
Length:563 Pages
Weight:2.06 lbs.
Customer Reviews
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An Olympian life
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Those who seek a captivating 20C journey need look no further. One travels from the author's Canadian roots through academia (OAC, UC Berkeley, Cambridge, Princeton, Harvard), public service (farm policy, the New Deal, the wartime Office of Price Administration, the US Strategic Bombing Survey in Germany and Japan, Indian Ambassadorship), politics (FDR, Truman, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Vietnam opposition, McGovern, Nixon), and influential authorship. Each candid chapter is a pleasure. Galbraith, as always, is consistently sagacious. Like his friend George W. Ball Jr (`The Past Has Another Pattern,' Norton 1982), he's a welcome contrast to subsequent public servants who use their experience to amass personal fortunes by promoting special interests. Highly recommended.
Galbraith - don't miss him!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
When I borrowed this book at the library, I had never read Galbraith before, and intended to read just a few chapters. Now I am still reading his books.Galbraith is funny. You learn a lot from him, he makes you see under the surface of things. He is never boring. His writing style is exceptionally elegant. And he obviously is a very good man.
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