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A life in our times : : memoirs

Autobiography of economist Professor John Kenneth Galbraith, and the events and famous people of the times.

Main Author: Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006.
Language:English
Published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981..
Subjects:
Galbraith, John Kenneth, > 1908-
Galbraith, John Kenneth.
Galbraith, John Kenneth, > (1908-2006)
Galbraith, John Kenneth <1908-2006>
Galbraith, John Kenneth, > 1908-2006.
Economists -- > United States
Economie.
Politieke geschiedenis.
Economen.
Économistes -- > Biographies. -- > États-Unis
Autobiographie.
United States -- > Politics and government -- > 1945-1989.
États-Unis -- > Politique et gouvernement -- > 1945-1989.
Online Access:https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0736/80027373-b.html
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Table of 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.

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