A Life in Our Times [Paperback]

John Kenneth Galbraith (Author)

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"In the decades since World War II, no American writer has done more to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable than John Kenneth Galbraith." (USA Today ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

John Kenneth Galbraith who was born in 1908, is the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University and a past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the distinguished author of thirty-one books spanning three decades, including The Affluent Society, The Good Society, and The Great Crash. He has been awarded honorary degrees from Harvard, Oxford, the University of Paris, and Moscow University, and in 1997 he was inducted into the Order of Canada and received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2000, at a White House ceremony, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 576 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books (April 12, 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345303237
• ISBN-13: 978-0345303233
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.2 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,165,792 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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John Kenneth Galbraith who was born in 1908, is the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University and a past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the distinguished author of thirty-one books spanning three decades, including The Affluent Society, The Good Society, and The Great Crash. He has been awarded honorary degrees from Harvard, Oxford, the University of Paris, and Moscow University, and in 1997 he was inducted into the Order of Canada and received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2000, at a White House ceremony, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Galbraith - don't miss him!, December 23, 2001

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This review is from: Life In Our Times: Special Edition (Hardcover)

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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4.0 out of 5 stars An Olympian life, January 19, 2009

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This review is from: A Life in Our Times (Paperback)

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.