Includes index.

Above the lakes -- Berkeley and the higher learning in America -- First glimpse of grandeur -- Harvard before democracy -- Revelation -- In innocence abroad -- Interlude -- Washington, 1940 -- Price czar novitiate -- The inner face of war -- The dynam ics of error -- The rough game -- Germany, 1945 -- Albert Speer and after -- Japan, 1945 -- Cold breath -- Time, fortune, life, luce -- Academia redux -- Adlai Stevenson -- Depression, crash, communism, and the Canadian Pacific Railway -- First view of India and the affluent society -- A.E.S. Redux -- Kennedy, democrats and the new industrial state -- J.F.K. : the campaign -- Diplomacy ; spooks -- The State Department, Jawaharlal Nehru and India -- Intimate perception of a war -- Lyndon Johnson -- Vietnam : the beginning -- The politics of the careful dissent -- The violent convocation -- The new industrial state and after -- Last chapter.

Autobiography of economist Professor John Kenneth Galbraith, and the events and famous people of the times.