“My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or left vague, to the point of meaningless.”

Introduction, One Life, One Century, p. 19
Living In The Number One Country (2000)

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American media critic 1919–2000

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