A life in our times : memoirs / John Kenneth Galbraith
by Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908-2006)
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1981. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 563 pp.; 24 cm. Contents; Above the lakes -- Berkeley and the higher learning in America -- First glimpse of grandeur -- Harvard before democracy -- Revelation -- In innocence abroad -- Interlude -- Washington, 1940 -- Price czar novitiate -- The inner face of war -- The dynamics of error -- The rough game -- Germany, 1945 -- Albert Speer and after -- Japan, 1945 -- Cold breath -- Time, fortune, life, luce -- Academia redux -- Adlai Stevenson -- Depression, crash, communism, and the Canadian Pacific Railway -- First view of India and the affluent society -- A.E.S. Redux -- Kennedy, democrats and the new industrial state -- J.F.K. : the campaign -- Diplomacy ; spooks -- The State Department, Jawaharlal Nehru and India -- Intimate perception of a war -- Lyndon Johnson -- Vietnam : the beginning -- The politics of the careful dissent -- The violent convocation -- The new industrial state and after -- Last chapter. Subjects; Galbraith, John Kenneth 1908-2006. Economists United States ; Biography. Politics, Practical. Government.
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- Title
- A life in our times : memoirs / John Kenneth Galbraith
- Author
- Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908-2006)
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- Hardcover
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- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin
- Date Published
- 1981
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