[PEN-L:4337] Fw: A Note on Lynn Turgeon

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From: Greg Nowell <GN842@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: POST-KEYNESIAN THOUGHT <pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, March 12, 1999 4:51 PM
Subject: A Note on Lynn Turgeon


>I only knew him through this list.  I recently reviewed
>his last book for ROPE, and learned he was ill because
>he asked me for a copy of the review (somehow he had
>learned that I was writing it).  I at first refused, as
>I am aware of bad situations that have arisen between
>authors and reviewers in such circumstances, but he
>told me of his illness and I sent it off to him.   He
>didn't get to read his own obits, as has happened in a
>few bizarre situations to some people, but at least he
>got to see a review of his book.
>
>I'm sorry to see him go, he brought a "New Deal" kind
>of energy to his Keynesianism which few of us postwar
>brats can match, even if we do read the right books.
>
>--
>Gregory P. Nowell
>Associate Professor
>Department of Political Science, Milne 100
>State University of New York
>135 Western Ave.
>Albany, New York 12222
>
>Fax 518-442-5298
>
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