'Superb background to some of the most exciting intellectual campaigning of the second half of the 20th century... Parker's biography reads as easily as a novel and is an outstanding piece of work.' SPECTATOR --'A majestic biography... A work of scholarship that manages to be a page-turner.'PROSPECT --'What makes Parker's biography valuable is his ability to place Galbraith in a sweeping and comprehensive history of the evolution of economic thought, and to keep sight of his subject's continuing relevance to the present day.' WASHINGTON POST --'Richard Parker has produced a rich, well-written and fittingly large monument to this super-sized intellectual of the 20th century.' GLOBE AND MAIL -- --*
Chosen as one of the best books of 2005 by both The New York Times and The Globe and Mail, Richard Parker’s biography of John Kenneth Galbraith has garnered international acclaim for its highly readable portrayal of its extraordinary subject: a Canadian-born Harvard economist who holds a central place in the development of liberal politics, Keynesian economics and the modern world. Tracing his rise from an Ontario farm to the epicentre of American public life, this is the engaging story of an iconic thinker whose provocative ideas on deregulated markets, corporate greed and military spending are more relevant than ever.
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