A Life in Our Times

The richly adventurous memoirs of one of the most dazzling public figures to dominate the American scene over the last decades

"As a raconteur and a literary stylist he stands with the best. . . . As entertainment, the book is a total success."-The New York Times Book Review

"Absorbing and irresistible."-The New Yorker

"A highly perceptive commentary on all our yesterdays . . . anecdotal, amusing, animated and above all, illuminating."-John Barkham Reviews

"An enjoyable book, full of fun, full of wisdom, and full of rare insights into the history of our times."-The New Republic

"A delightfully teeming book . . . [John Kenneth] Galbraith's comic voice is a distinctive and durable literary achievement."-Atlantic Monthly