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...UNCERTAINTY is a little bit like taking a stroll through your old home town with your grandfather: you don't expect to see or hear anything startling, but his attendance to 'long-ignored detail with the personal, insider's touch almost makes the thing worthwhile. Grandpa Galbraith has been around for a long time; The Age of Uncertainty breaks no new ground in his own intellectual development. And you probably know much of the stuff he talks about already: Smith on the division of labor, Keynes on the role of government economic intervention, Khruschev on peaceful co-existence...
...Uncertainty, Galbraith...
...Former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan always kept a Trollope novel on his night table. He marveled at the paradox that Trollope's novels are so sound politically, while those of Disraeli, the most adroit politician of the Victorian era, are so patently false. John Kenneth Galbraith confesses to being a Trollope junkie. "For many years I didn't think I could go on vacation without a Trollope novel," says Galbraith. "He's a narcotic...
...struggles for power within the Anglican Church and the Victorian crises of conscience are interesting but not unduly exciting, absorbing but not all-involving. Best of all, the stories go on seemingly forever and satisfy the modern taste for family sagas -just look at Roots and Upstairs, Downstairs. Says Galbraith: "Anybody who tells you he has read all of Trollope is a liar. No matter how old you are, you'll always find another volume you haven't read before...
...EACH MORNING for a leisurely breakfast and to hear of the exceptionally depraved sexual adventures of one of our colleagues on the previous night," John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, reminisces about his days as a Winthrop House tutor in The Age of Uncertainty, his most recent book. In Galbraith's days, breakfast served as an integral part of that great Harvard educational institution, the dining hall, where many a bumpkin has learned grace, style and the art of fine conversation. Today, meals later in the day fill that role, and breakfast consists of a quick, watery...