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　　A captivating memoir . . . showing personal triumphs over

adversity. . . .The boy can do it. -Sylvia Nasar, The New York

Times Book Review

Wonderfully rich and precise. . . . Do me a favor. . . read the

first paragraph. --Erik Lundegaard, The Seattle Times/Post

Intelligencer

Exquisitely written. . . . [C]ertain to charm away the idle

hours. -Trevor Butterworth, The Washington Post Book World

Both a study of the immigrant experience and a vivid picture of

mid-century intellectual life at America's preeminent university.

But most of all it is a touching portrait of a complex and

staggeringly learned individual, written by one of the few people

he allowed to touch his heart. Daniel Akst, Smithsonian

An absorbing, psychologically nuanced and overall balanced

appraisal of a complex man who lived in complex times. . . . A

widely researched, meticulously documented portrayal. --Marion

Abbott, San Francisco Chronicle

Dawidoffs captivating family memoir is a tribute to his

twice-exiled grandfather, the Harvard economist Alexander

Gerschenkron, retracing his tortuous path to Cambridge and

recounting the intellectual passion that earned Gerschenkron the

title the last man with all known knowledge. The New York Times

Book Review

This is a splendidly crafted book: partly a valuable estimate of

Gerschenkron's place in the history of theory, partly a study of

academic life and politics in the 20th century and above all a

thoughtful and often charming personal memoir. St. Louis

Post-Dispatch

Nicholas Dawidoff has written a wonderful book, full of humor,

love, and understanding. The New York Sun

It wouldnt be an overstatement to say this loving memoir is the

most fascinating in its class. Chicago Tribune

A loving, carefully researched, effortless-seeming booka delight

to read. The story of the great Alexander Gerschenkron as told by

his grandson combines the smallest and most telling personal

details with an exhilarating wide-angle view of twentieth-century

intellectual life. Ian Frazier, author of Family and Great

Plains

The Fly Swatter is a terrific book for many reasons. Amateur

students . . . will appreciate Dawidoffs discussion of economic

theory. Historians will likewise enjoy his chronicle of a human

character moving through world events. . . . Dawidoffs unusual

perspective as a grandson might be most compelling for another set

of readers. The Austin Chronicle

One marvelous memoir. Booklist

To give birth to ones own grandfather is no mean feat, but that

is exactly Dawidoffs great triumph. The Fly Swatter is a densely

imagined, beautifully written book. Peter Carey, author of True

History of the Kelly Gang

If [Alexander Gerschenkron] has access to a celestial computer

and can download (or perhaps upload) Nicky Boys moving tribute, he

must be proudly savoring every word. The New Leader

-- Review

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书籍介绍

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.