“That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end.”

— Daniel Bell, book The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Foreword: 1978, p. xi
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)

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American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor emeritu… 1919–2011

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