Life in Our Times Condition:Well Read This is the man who

This is the man who picks his nose on the bus

Children eight and up will enjoy this conversational but information-packed introduction to astronomy and stargazing

Abe Fortas was a New Dealer

and behavioral economics

Life in Our Times Condition:Well Read This is the man whoPerhaps economist Galbraith the epitome of the public intellectual was always the amused observer, even of himself, that his memoirs would have us think. Perhaps his private life was so placid that there is nothing to tell. But the book is pinched: fascinating for all that he did & perceived, consistently entertaining because he's a witty, sardonic raconteur, tantalizing because you haven't heard all those stories of famous people before. Why dither?