Name-dropping : from F.D.R. on / John Kenneth Galbraith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politicians--United States--Biography--Anecdotes.

Politicians.

Politics and government.

United States.

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006--Friends and associates.

Galbraith, John Kenneth.

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006.

Friends and associates.

United States--Politics and government--1945-1989--Anecdotes.

United States--Politics and government--1989---Anecdotes.

Politicians--Biography--Anecdotes.

Politicians--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

194 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999.

Summary:

John Kenneth Galbraith, the noted economist, joined Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal in 1934 and served that administration during World War II in the crucial role of deputy head of the Office of Price Administration in charge of price control. His service to FDR and his relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt began a long involvement with the leaders who would define much of the course of the twentieth century: Truman, Stevenson, John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy, Nehru, Lyndon Johnson, and others at home and abroad.

Drawing on a lifetime of access to many of the greatest public figures, Galbraith creates a rich and uniquely personal history of the century -- a history he helped to shape. We are invited to hear FDR on the Great Depression and World War II; Albert Speer, the Third Reich's architect and armaments minister, on the boorishness and incompetence of the Nazi leadership; John F. Kennedy, from youth to the presidency; Jacqueline Kennedy's shrewd judgments of the White House inner circle. In this clear-eyed, unsparing, and amusing look back at the world and the people he has known, Galbraith tells what these leaders did -- how they looked to him then and how they look to him now -- with unforgettable reminiscences and a rich infusion of engaging anecdotes. Name-Dropping charts the political landscape of the past sixty-five years with the dazzling insight, humor, and literary skill that mark Galbraith as one of the most distinguished writers of our time.

Contents:

1. On Name-Dropping 1

2. Franklin D. Roosevelt, I: The New Deal 9

3. Franklin D. Roosevelt, II: The War in Washington 25

4. Eleanor Roosevelt 45

5. Albert Speer: The Essential Enemy 57

6. Harry Truman

and After 67

7. Too Madly for Adlai 85

8. John F. Kennedy 101

9. The Kennedy Circle, Jacqueline Kennedy 119

10. Jawaharlal Nehru 131

11. L.B.J. 143

12. Bowles, Ball, Harriman and the Tyranny of Policy 157

13. Sketches on the Larger Screen 175.

ISBN:

0395822882

OCLC:

40869758