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AMBASSADOR'S JOURNAL by John Kenneth Galbraith. 656 pages. Houghfon M/ffl/n...
What makes all the difference in this book is Galbraith. The sometime Harvard economist (The Affluent Society), novelist (The Triumph) and dancing partner of Jacqueline Kennedy is that rarity among diarists, a writer of first-rate prose. As a journal of his two years and three months as U.S. Ambassador to India (April 1961-July 1963), the volume is inevitably filled with history's largely forgotten and largely forgettable moments. But scarcely a paragraph is unredeemed by a flash of wit or a quietly neo-Machiavellian observation...
Just after the scheduled starting time of 3:30 p.m., John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, presented McGovern to the rally...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, spoke at several rallies. Though Galbraith continued to attack President Nixon's Vietnam policy, he cautioned against demands for immediate withdrawal...
...Cambridge, John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics: George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology; and Everett I. Mendelsohn, associate professor of the History of Science, will speak at various gatherings...