The Scotch - Softcover

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0771598424 ISBN 13: 9780771598425

Publisher: Macmillan of Canada, 1985

Synopsis

In 1908, in Dunwich Township, a patch of rural southern Ontario that was more Scottish than much of Scotland, the renowned economist and public servant John Kenneth Galbraith was born. In 1963, Galbraith wroteThe Scotch,a memoir of the tight (in every sense) community in which he was raised. Galbraith tells how the men were distinguished by the amount of land they'd accumulated, how hard they worked, how hard they drank, but mainly by how frugal they were. It was said that Codfish John McKillop was so economical that when he died and was being lowered into his grave, he lifted the cover of his coffin and handed out his clothes. Educated himself first at the one-room Willey School, where team sports were held to be "bad for a youngster," and later at Dutton High School under the aegis of an incompetent teacher who believed in learning through terror, Galbraith raced through the early grades and left for the Ontario Agricultural College, en route, eventually, to Harvard

About this title

About the Author

John Kenneth Galbraith is the author of numerous books, many of them very influential in modern economic and political thinking. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan of Canada
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0771598424
• ISBN 13: 9780771598425
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148