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Name-Dropping

From FDR On

John Kenneth Galbraith
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Pages
208
Year
2001
Language
English
Publisher
Mariner Books

About

Name-Dropping covers the long and remarkable career of this economist and former ambassador, charting sixty-five years of politics, government, and American history as he writes of the many people he has known-among them Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, and Jawaharlal Nehru.

Related Subjects

  • Political
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • Adult Nonfiction
  • Presidents & Heads of State
  • Economic History
  • Business & Economics
  • 20th Century
  • United States
  • History
  • Diplomacy
  • International Relations
  • Political Science

Reviews

"[A] charming memoir [that] serves to remind us that idealism and trust once existed in the White House and Washington, a fact that may seem unbelievable..."
Newday
"Names? You want names? No one knows better ones than John Kenneth Galbraith…."
San Diego Union-Tribune
"Shrewd, irreverent, penetrating, and hilarious."
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

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