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"Names? You want names? No one knows better ones than John Kenneth Galbraith? (San Diego Union-Tribune). With the dazzling insight, humor, and literary skill that mark Galbraith as one of the most distinguished writers of our time, Name-Dropping charts the political landscape of the past sixty-five years. Drawing on a lifetime of access to many great public figures, the famous economist offers a clear-eyed, unsparing, and amusing ?look at prominent people . . . [he] has known, from FDR on? (Larry King, USA Today) and offers a rich and uniquely personal history of the century ? a history he helped to shape.…mehr

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"Names? You want names? No one knows better ones than John Kenneth Galbraith? (San Diego Union-Tribune). With the dazzling insight, humor, and literary skill that mark Galbraith as one of the most distinguished writers of our time, Name-Dropping charts the political landscape of the past sixty-five years. Drawing on a lifetime of access to many great public figures, the famous economist offers a clear-eyed, unsparing, and amusing ?look at prominent people . . . [he] has known, from FDR on? (Larry King, USA Today) and offers a rich and uniquely personal history of the century ? a history he helped to shape.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) was a critically acclaimed author and one of America's foremost economists. His most famous works include The Affluent Society, The Good Society, and The Great Crash. Galbraith was the recipient of the Order of Canada and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Lifetime Achievement, and he was twice awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.