| A Life In Our Times - Memoirs
(1981)
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| Front Cover |
Book Details |
Back Cover |
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| Genre |
Non-Fiction; Biography |
| Subject |
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006; Economists - United States - Biography; United States - Politics and government - 1945-1989 |
| Publication Date |
5/1/1981 |
| Format |
Hardcover (9.3
x
6.3
mm)
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| Publisher |
Houghton Mifflin |
| Language |
English |
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| Description |
| An autobiography of the famous statesman, economics writer, and presidential adviser. |
| Personal Details |
| Store |
2nd & Charles |
| Purchase Price |
$9.95 |
| Acquire Date |
4/13/2019 |
| Condition |
Very Good/Very Good |
| Rating |
0 |
| Links |
Library of Congress
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| Product Details |
| LoC Classification |
HB119.G33A34 |
| Dewey |
330.0924 |
| ISBN |
9780395305096 |
| Cover Price |
$16.95 |
| No. of Pages |
563 |
| First Edition |
No |
| Rare |
No |
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| Notes/Review |
My to-read list includes a number of titles by Galbraith. Somehow, I managed to pick up his memoirs before reading any of the others. Normally, I might view this as the incorrect sequence. In this case, however, it simply confirmed that a) Galbraith is worth reading and b) that the other books on the list are the ones I really should read.
I've read a number of memoirs of people whose voices are familiar to me. This sometimes leads me to read their books while mentally hearing their voices and cadences. Luckily, that wasn't the case here. My exposure to his voice was through his television series, The Age of Uncertainty. I think if I'd been reading using his voice, it would have taken me three or four times as long to read.
Galbraith was an intelligent and interesting person, who put together a career and life working with and getting to know other intelligent and interesting people. He tells us his story in an engaging and interesting way. This story is almost exclusively about his professional life: as a civil servant, professor, political campaign worker, ambassador, and author. We get almost nothing of his family, which is fine by me. He interests me because of what he's done, not who his spouse or children are, or how he spent his time off.
As is typical with memoirs, there are no notes or bibliography. There's an index, and I think exactly one map. It would have been nice to have a handful of photographs, but so it goes. |
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