Book #12442

The Culture Of Contentment - 1st Edition/1st Printing

John Kenneth Galbraith
Book #12442 The Culture Of Contentment - 1st Edition/1st Printing. John Kenneth Galbraith.

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.
ISBN: 0395572282

A very attractive first edition, first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket. This copy has been SIGNED and dated by AUTHOR John Kenneth Galbraith on the title page.

Galbraith's keen and striking appraisal of America's late 20th century, far from happy state of affairs. A once strong and aspiring nation has lapsed into a self-serving economic and social stasis. A critical assessment of where America was going and not going and its consequences by one the sparpest and most original minds in his time; Small 8vo; Signed by Author.

Price: $70.00

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John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith (Oct. 15, 1908 - Apr. 29, 2006), Canadian-American economist, Harvard professor, and author of more than fourty books, e.g., American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), and The New Industrial State (1967).

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