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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Galbraith - don't miss him!,
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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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An Olympian life,
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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. |
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Life In Our Times: Special Edition by John Kenneth Galbraith (Hardcover - May 1, 1981)
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