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No American writer has done more to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable than John Kenneth Galbraith. --USA Today With characteristic wit and clarity [Galbraith] suggests that while good money may indeed be driven out by the bad, it is political suicide to assume that the suckers left holding the bad will take it lying down... [T]here is no more current, more judicious, or more entertaining a perspective. --Kirkus Lively. --Library Journal

Lively. --Library Journal With characteristic wit and clarity [Galbraith] suggests that while good money may indeed be driven out by the bad, it is political suicide to assume that the suckers left holding the bad will take it lying down. . . . [T]here is no more current, more judicious, or more entertaining a perspective. --Kirkus Reviews No American writer has done more to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable than John Kenneth Galbraith. --USA Today

""No American writer has done more to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable than John Kenneth Galbraith.""--USA Today ""With characteristic wit and clarity [Galbraith] suggests that while good money may indeed be driven out by the bad, it is political suicide to assume that the suckers left holding the bad will take it lying down... [T]here is no more current, more judicious, or more entertaining a perspective.""--Kirkus ""Lively.""--Library Journal

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John Kenneth Galbraith (19082006) was one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century. He was professor of economics at Harvard University and served as U.S. ambassador to India during the Kennedy administration. He wrote more than fifty books, including American Capitalism, The Affluent Society, and The New Industrial State (Princeton).

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