One of the last in-depth interviews John Kenneth Galbraith ever did was with a reporter - actually, with me - for MONEY magazine, FORTUNE's sister publication, just a few days after the Sept. 11 attacks.

We met in his home in Cambridge, Mass., in an upstairs study, on a stifling late-summer day. His wife, Catherine, brought us glasses of ice water as Galbraith folded his 6-foot 8-inch frame into a padded armchair. A basket of prescription-drug vials had been placed nearby. At 92, Galbraith still spoke clearly. But with pauses. Frequent pauses.

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