Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, December 1st, 2007
7 OCTOBER 1916 * 13 FEBRUARY 2003
Three remarkable figures have been taken from us recently: Ken Galbraith, the economist; Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the historian; and Walt Rostow, the economic historian. They were liberals, they were Democrats, they were anti-Communists, they were friends, and they seemed, at least insofar as I knew them, to have a hell of a good time. They belonged to a set of college professors-they may have actually created such a set, at least for their generation-that moved productively between university and government service; and they wrote analytical essays and books ...
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