Author: Dawidoff, Nicholas,
Title: The Fly Swatter: how my grandfather made his way in the world.
Description: NY, Pantheon, (2002). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. The most interesting lives are not always the best-known lives. Gerschenkron's great escapes, vivid wit, feuds, flirtations,. & supremely cultured mind are the stuff of legend. He fled the Russian Revolution at 16, settled in Vienna, only to flee the Nazis in the late 1930s and made his way to Massachusetts where he became Harvard's scholarly model, the Harvard professor who knew the most. He feuded with everyone from Nabokov to Galbraith, played chess with Marcel Duchamp, enjoyed an intimate interlude with Marlene Dietrich and was a confident of both Isaiah Berlin of Oxford and Ted Williams of the Red Sox.

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