GALBRAITH, John Kenneth.
John Kenneth Galbraith: The Abiding Liberal.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970-1992.
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A Collection of Three First Edition Works by John Kenneth Galbraith, The Abiding Liberal; Each Inscribed by Him
A collection of three first edition works by John Kenneth Galbraith, America’s most celebrated liberal economist, gathering his political and occasional writings as a public conscience. Octavo, three volumes, original publisher's cloth or half-cloth. The collection comprises: Who Needs the Democrats and What It Takes to Be Needed (Doubleday, 1970), his bracing call to the party; Annals of an Abiding Liberal (Houghton Mifflin, 1979), his collected essays and reflections; and The Culture of Contentment (Houghton Mifflin, 1992), his mordant critique of a comfortable and complacent political order. Each volume is a presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Jane O’Riley, who divided her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and Vermont, the two places Galbraith himself called home. Each volume is near fine to fine in a near fine dust jackets. A splendid grouping of Galbraith the political conscience.
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) was one of the most influential economists and public intellectuals of the twentieth century, a leading proponent of American liberalism and a master of lucid, witty prose. A Harvard professor for decades, he advised presidents from Roosevelt to Kennedy, served as United States Ambassador to India, and reached a vast general readership through best-selling works such as The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State. Across more than four dozen books he championed the role of government in a humane economy and skewered what he famously called the conventional wisdom, becoming the rare economist whose name was known in every household.
John Kenneth Galbraith: The Abiding Liberal.
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