A View from the Stands

Of People, Politics, Military Power, and the Arts

by John Kenneth Galbraith

ISBN: 039535319X
ISBN-13: 9780395353196
Format: Hardcover

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published date: 1986

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Comments on economics, world affairs, and domestic and foreign policies from the end of the depression to the present and limns portraits of statesmen, writers, and other figures.

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