The Fly Swatter: Portrait of an Exceptional Character UPDATE:Default Title and The Picture of Dorian

and The Picture of Dorian Gray—capturing the haunting beauty

He shows how the expected fate of our ever-accelerating and expanding universe—heat death or ultimate entropy—can actually be reinterpreted as the conditions that will begin a new “Big Bang

and invites us to reclaim power and remake the system for all

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Date: 4/10/2007

The Fly Swatter: Portrait of an Exceptional Character UPDATE:Default Title and The Picture of DorianAuthor Contributor(s): Dawidoff, Nicholas Publisher: Vintage Date: 5 13 2003 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW 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