From Paris to Berkeley: Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (881 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1453626751 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 378 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Guy Benveniste is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.Born in France, he was trained at Harvard, worked as an engineer in Mexico, immigrated to the USA, served in the Kennedy Administration returned to Paris for the World Bank and UNESCO, took a PhD at Stanford and joined the Berkeley faculty in 1968.
From Paris to Berkeley Old Troll A compelling memoir written by a man who's lived a rich and fascinating life, From Paris to Berkeley chronicles a life that leads us from a vibrant Parisian Sephardic community to a Berkeley academic ghetto, across France through Spain to Mexico, from right coast to left, with stops at Harvard, Stanford, and Washington. Guy Benveniste's a charming and disarming author of rich experience with a devastating turn of phrase. I burned through the book and was sorry wh. A superb and engaging memoir Robert Girling Guy Benveniste's memoir is a fascinating read written by a man who has lived it all. It is a well written story of his rich and enduring life. From Paris to Berkeley starts with an expert history of the Sephardic community of Salonika in northern Greece and then chronicles the family's migration to Parisian Sephardic community. Beneveniste recounts his boyhood and details of his many thwarted crushes. The family is then forced to leave with the invasion of the Na. a painter who decided to become a writer Guy Benveniste, a diplomat and professor turned painter, chronicles his life in a memoir that is a richly coloured as his paintings. His story takes us from occupied France to the WWII-exiled community in Mexico, and then onto the golden era of the 1950's in America. The piece progresses chronologically, following the author's travels to the Middle East and Asia, but like Nabakov's prose, Benveniste lets his pen dip into flashbacks of his childhood and family sto
but this memoir goes beyond to help us understand how passion, love, and feelings shape our individual destinies.. The writing is vivid and honest, candid where it can be. The frank memoir of a Berkeley Professor born in Paris. It covers his narrow escape from France in 1942, his life in Mexico, studies at Harvard, settling in California, service in the Kennedy Administration, the World Bank and UNESCO and final appointment at Berkeley starting in the turbulent year of 1968. Guy Benveniste has published many books on organizations and planning. It is a ground level view of many of the great events of our times particularly the Diaspora of the 20th century and the flood-tide of American political, economic and
. Sometimes I did not understand why I was doing what I was doing. From Paris to Berkeley attempts to tell you that slowly, amusingly and persuasively. But in my own life I found that I was affected by many more factors: chance encounters, whims, love, uncertain feelings and convictions. From the Author What I tried to accomplish in this book is to show that one's life is affected as much by circumstances as by emotions. Rewards, pay, gain yes, I paid some attention to them but love and sex was as crucial. My professional books dealt with the ways the social environment affected behavior. By this, I mean if you pay someone to look the other way, there is a good chance they will look the other way