[KC Burke]

While I have, of course, noticed the Barzun book in the stackes at the stores, I am now faced with the recommendation of both you and x to pick up this book. I guess I will have to go over the monthly book budget again......sixty-second time in six years, LOL, I was sick the other four months.

[KC Burke]

< Nasty-grammar-shool-teacher-voice > Your book report is extremely overdue, young man. < /Nasty-grammar-shool-teacher-voice >

[betty boop]

KC, Barzun's is a wonderful, amazing work, a real education. I couldn't recommend it more highly. What comes across so strikingly is the idea that certain key ideas are representative of the various ages, and become drivers of cultural and social change. It helps us understand our own age to see how these signature ideas have evolved over time. It is an absolutely masterful work, wise, penetrating, of impeccable scholarship and erudition developed over a long lifetime -- Barzun was 94 in the year it was published. I think you will like it!