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Article: Undismal scientist.(John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics)(Book Review)
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- March 14, 2005
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John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics, by Richard Parker (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 832 pp., $35)
MIDWAY through this doorstop of a biography, the narrative is interrupted by a raft of photographs. There is John Kenneth Galbraith stooping--always stooping, as if his great beak of a nose were dragging him down from Olympian heights to a more mortal level--to speak with Jackie Kennedy and JFK; with Jawaharlal Nehru and George McGovern; with Jimmy Carter and Julia Child; with Bill and Hillary Clinton. The world has changed, these photographs seem to suggest, but Galbraith has been a hawk-nosed constant, casting a lengthy patrician shadow over ...
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