JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH: His Life, His Politics, His Economics
Richard Parker, . . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30 (820pp) ISBN 978-0-374-28168-7
Perhaps only an elephant of a book could cover the life and thinking of so influential a figure as John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908). But this one goes too far. While Parker, an economist, writes with fluency and expert knowledge, he thinks it essential to write short histories of everything Galbraith was involved in. And that was much, starting with New Deal Washington, then the post-WWII Strategic Bombing Survey, Harvard, JFK's administration and an ambassadorship to India—and, always, liberal Democratic politics. Through it all, Galbraith poured out torrents of never dull writings, of which
Reviewed on: 01/03/2005
Genre: Nonfiction
Other - 978-1-4668-9375-7
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