LAMSON, Peggy. [Julia Child] [John Kenneth Galbraith].
Speaking of Galbraith: A Personal Portrait.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1991.
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First Edition of Speaking of Galbraith; Inscribed by Peggy Lamson to Julia Child
First edition of this intimate portrait of the economist John Kenneth Galbraith. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Julia, Bon lire! love Peggy July, 1991." The recipient, Julia Child, was the chef, author, and television personality who brought French cuisine to the American public with her landmark cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her pioneering television program The French Chef. She and her husband Paul were close friends and Cambridge neighbors of John Kenneth Galbraith, the subject of this book, whose family lived just behind the Childs on Cambridge's Professors' Row. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sara Eisenman.
Speaking of Galbraith: A Personal Portrait (1991) is Peggy Lamson's affectionate and revealing biography of John Kenneth Galbraith, the towering Harvard economist, best-selling author, presidential adviser, and United States Ambassador to India whose books, among them The Affluent Society and The Great Crash, 1929, reshaped public debate about American capitalism. Drawing on long acquaintance and extensive interviews with Galbraith, his family, and his wide circle of friends, Lamson portrays the man behind the public figure, his wit, his convictions, and his place at the center of twentieth-century American liberalism. Peggy Lamson was an American writer and biographer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the author of a life of the American Civil Liberties Union founder Roger Baldwin, who moved in the same intellectual community as her subject.
Speaking of Galbraith: A Personal Portrait.
$450.00
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