A Life in Our Times - Hardcover

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395305098 ISBN 13: 9780395305096

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1983

Synopsis

The eminent economist and public servant retraces the main and telling events and relationships of his eventful life and draws sharp portraits of some famous and infamous people met along the way

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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.

Review:

"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)

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0395305098
• ISBN 13: 9780395305096
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 563