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x, 563 pages ; 24 cm |
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Includes index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Autobiography of economist Professor John Kenneth Galbraith, and the events and famous people of the times. |
| Subject |
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006.
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Economists -- United States -- Biography.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
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Economics.
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Politics, Practical.
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Economists -- United States -- Biography.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
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Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006. |
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Economics (DNLM)D004467 |
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Politics (DNLM)D011057 |
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Government (DNLM)D006076 |
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United States (DNLM)D014481 |
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Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006. (OCoLC)fst00036821
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Economists. (OCoLC)fst00902277
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Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1945-1989
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiography (DNLM)D020493 |
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Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies. (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000520
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| ISBN |
0395305098 |
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9780395305096 |
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0395311357 (special ed.) |
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9780395311356 (special ed.) |
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