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1968: John Galbraith: The All-Purpose Critic

1968: John Galbraith: The All-Purpose Critic
"As a popular economist and polished diplomat, a veteran lecturer and fledgling novelist, a former presidential adviser and current cynosure of the Eastern intellectual set, John Kenneth Galbraith has long been a purveyor of predictions. For two decades they have come tumbling from his typewriter and tongue in prodigious quantities, covering every topic from women to world politics."
From: The Great Mogul, Feb. 16, 1968

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