"I can't remember when I've learned as much from something I've read—or laughed as much while doing it."—Jacob Weisberg, Slate


Finally in paperback after six hardcover printings, this inter...

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"I can't remember when I've learned as much from something I've read—or laughed as much while doing it."—Jacob Weisberg, Slate


Finally in paperback after six hardcover printings, this international bestseller is an encyclopedic A-Z masterpiece—the perfect introduction to the very core of Western humanism. Clive James rescues, or occasionally destroys, the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the twentieth century. Soaring to Montaigne-like heights, Cultural Amnesia is precisely the book to burnish these memories of a Western civilization that James fears is nearly lost.

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