Snow, Simone de Beauvoir and John Kenneth Galbraith, readers may feel that Mr Conquest is no longer reliable.

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"Let Us Talk of Many Things" comes with dust jacket blurbs from, among others, George McGovern and John Kenneth Galbraith.

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IR I am reminded of John Kenneth Galbraith's argument in favour of migration as the only effective response to world poverty.

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Taking up a job at the American embassy, she was social secretary to various ambassadors to India, including Chester Bowles and John Kenneth Galbraith.

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The theory that the industrial combine will swallow us all alive reached its apogee 39 years ago with the publication of John Kenneth Galbraith's The New Industrial State.

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Yet the ostentatiously ludicrous Mr West has undoubtedly helped to attract bright students to Harvard in the same way that the rather more serious Arthur Schlesinger and John Kenneth Galbraith once did.

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The son of John Kenneth Galbraith, doyen of political economists and once President Kennedy's man in India, Galbraith fils grew up in the family's rambling house in Cambridge, and moved a couple of blocks to go to Harvard.

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In September 1987 he issued the first of several predictions of the Tokyo banking crash and went on in "Blindside, " a controversial 1995 analysis that was praised by John Kenneth Galbraith and Bill Clinton, to show that a heedless America was fast losing its formerly vaunted leadership in advanced manufacturing -- and particularly in so-called producers' goods -- to Japan.

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