Download or read book Cultural Amnesia written by Clive James and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 100 original essays organized by quotations, James illuminates, rescues, or occasionally destroys the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the 20th century. 110 photographs.