{"product_id":"9780547586588","title":"Name-Dropping: From FDR On","description":"\u003cb\u003e“[A] charming memoir [that] serves to remind us that idealism and trust once existed in the White House and Washington, a fact that may seem unbelievable” (\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A New York Times Notable Book\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Names? You want names? No one knows better ones than John Kenneth Galbraith,” says the \u003ci\u003eSan Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eName-Dropping\u003c\/i\u003e covers the long and remarkable career of this economist and former ambassador, charting sixty-five years of politics, government, and American history as he writes of the many people he has known—among them Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, and Jawaharlal Nehru—“with a wit, style, and elegance few can match” (\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This “mischievously and merrily unrepentant” memoir offers a rich and uniquely personal history of the twentieth century—a history the author himself helped to shape (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Shrewd, irreverent, penetrating, and hilarious.” —Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “It is not usual for a man past his 90th birthday to write a book that is as fresh and lively as the work of a 30-year-old. But John Kenneth Galbraith is not a usual man, and he has done it.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120316596464,"sku":"9780547586588","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547586588_p0.jpg?v=1763716622","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547586588","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}