Title: The Fly Swatter
First published: 2002
Description: "The most interesting lives are not always the best-known lives, and this is the account of a truly fascinating person. The stories of Alexander Gerschenkron - his great escapes, his vivid wit, his feuds, his flirtations, and his supremely cultured mind - are the stuff of legend.".

"Born in 1904 into the progressive Odessa intelligentsia, Gerschenkron fled the Russian revolution at sixteen and settled in Vienna, immersing himself in the charged civic and intellectual life of another doomed city.

Escaping the Nazis in the late 1930s, he made his way to Massachusetts, evolving from a political exile and social outcast into a man referred to by The New York Times as "Harvard's scholarly model," and by his peers as "The Great Gerschenkron" - the Harvard professor who knew the most."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Economists, Harvard University. Dept. of Economics, Harvard University, Biography, Harvard University. Department of Economics, New York Times reviewed, Economists, biography, Faculty
Places: United States
People: Alexander Gerschenkron
LC classification: HB119.G47 D39 2002