15 min.

The 'Awesome' John Kenneth Galbraith Brattleboro Words Trail Podcast

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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) was one of the world's best known economists whose eloquent and internationally recognized writings on economics, public policy and culture helped shape the identity of the modern United States and 20th-century American liberalism. He was a professor at Harvard University for decades. He spent long summers in Newfane, VT for more than 30 years and frequented the Moore Free Library which reserves a special shelf for the dozens of books he wrote the quintessential analysis of the Great Depression -The Great Crash - and The Affluent Society, both of which were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. He also wrote hundreds of magazine articles and several novels. He served in the administrations of four presidents and was US Ambassador to India under the Kennedy administration. He received the WWII Medal of Freedom in 1946 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 200 for his public service and contributions to science. His sons Peter and Jamie Galbraith are important writers and continue to use the family home and contribute to local dialogue through the Brattleboro-based Windham World Affairs Council, which continues an annual lecture in honor of their father. In the first half of the episode, Vermont journalist Joyce Marcel narrates these facts about the man. Her husband, Randy Holhut, an editor at the weekly The Commons newspaper, relays a personal story of Galbraith's largesse taken from an obituary he wrote upon Galbraith's death in 2006. The second half of the episode focuses on Galbraith as a writer. Galbraith's son Peter Galbraith says that, despite the fact that his father was one of the world's best known economists, he thought of himself primarily as a writer. Peter shares insights on writing he learned from his father and the elder Galbraith himself shares writing advice through archival tape taken from a 1986 talk at UC Berkeley.

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) was one of the world's best known economists whose eloquent and internationally recognized writings on economics, public policy and culture helped shape the identity of the modern United States and 20th-century American liberalism. He was a professor at Harvard University for decades. He spent long summers in Newfane, VT for more than 30 years and frequented the Moore Free Library which reserves a special shelf for the dozens of books he wrote the quintessential analysis of the Great Depression -The Great Crash - and The Affluent Society, both of which were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. He also wrote hundreds of magazine articles and several novels. He served in the administrations of four presidents and was US Ambassador to India under the Kennedy administration. He received the WWII Medal of Freedom in 1946 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 200 for his public service and contributions to science. His sons Peter and Jamie Galbraith are important writers and continue to use the family home and contribute to local dialogue through the Brattleboro-based Windham World Affairs Council, which continues an annual lecture in honor of their father. In the first half of the episode, Vermont journalist Joyce Marcel narrates these facts about the man. Her husband, Randy Holhut, an editor at the weekly The Commons newspaper, relays a personal story of Galbraith's largesse taken from an obituary he wrote upon Galbraith's death in 2006. The second half of the episode focuses on Galbraith as a writer. Galbraith's son Peter Galbraith says that, despite the fact that his father was one of the world's best known economists, he thought of himself primarily as a writer. Peter shares insights on writing he learned from his father and the elder Galbraith himself shares writing advice through archival tape taken from a 1986 talk at UC Berkeley.

15 min.