From GlobeandMail's article on Galbraith's reading and writing:
Galbraith admirers, however, are an independent lot, and from among his four dozen books (many still in print 50 years on; all available, albeit often well-worn, thanks to the Internet), each has his or her favourite. Time magazine, for example, hated The Affluent Society but lauded his novel A Tenured Professor as equal to Voltaire at his best. His wife Kitty still counts his history, The Great Crash: 1929, as her favourite, citing critic Mark Van Doren's judgment -- "History that reads like poetry" -- as her own. Galbraith himself felt he'd done his best writing in The Scotch, a gentle, often lyric remembrance of his youth in Elgin County, on the north shore of Lake Erie.
Neophytes, however, have no better place to start than The Essential Galbraith (Mariner Books, 2001), a wonderfully encompassing primer of his thought and
craftsmanship, composed of articles and excerpts drawn from his larger work. Assembled and arranged by his long-time editor and assistant Andrea Williams, it amounts to an introductory panopticon covering the career of this extraordinarily gifted, funny, intelligent -- and most important, wise -- man.
(link via TEV)
