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The Fly Swatter: Portrait of an Exceptional Character

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Availability:In StockContributor:Nicholas DawidoffPublish date:2003-05-13Pages:370
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375700064ISBN-10:375700064UPC:9780375700064Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, HistoricalSize:8.01 x 5.13 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC1MW7CQF1
In The Fly Swatter, Nicholas Dawidoff--bestselling author of The Catcher Was a Spy--vividly reconstructs the life of his grandfather, Alexander Gerschenkron-the Harvard professor who knew the most.

A fascinating character, Gerschenkron feuded with Vladimir Nabokov and John Kenneth Galbraith, flirted with Marlene Dietrich, and played chess with Marcel Duchamp and one-upped both Isiah Berlin and (allegedly) Ted Williams. At Harvard, this celebrated polyglot was known as "The Great Gerschenkron." He was an influential economic theorist who knew twenty languages and so much about so many other things that he was offered chairs in three departments. All this after beginning life with traumatic dramatic escapes from the Bolsheviks (in 1920) and the Nazis (in 1938). Riveting and eloquent, The Fly Swatter's most unusual accomplishment is that it succeeds in telling the extraordinary story of a man's soul.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375700064ISBN-10:375700064UPC:9780375700064Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, HistoricalSize:8.01 x 5.13 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC1MW7CQF1
Nicholas Dawidoff is the author of The Catcher was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg and In the Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music, and is the editor of the Library of America's Baseball: A Literary Anthology. He is also a contributor to The New Yorker, The American Scholar, and The New York Times Magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, he has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Berlin Prize Fellow of the American Academy. He and his wife live in New York.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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