Barzun
Americannoun
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It is run by former BBC and The Times executive James Harding, and former US ambassador to the UK Matthew Barzun.
From BBC
Mr Harding launched Tortoise with the former US ambassador to the UK James Barzun.
From BBC
“The show gets the informality of really good meetings in the foreign secretary’s office, minus the people dropping dead,” said Matthew Barzun, who served as ambassador during the Obama administration.
From New York Times
The key to keeping one’s sanity, Mr. Barzun said, is not to worry about being in every critical meeting.
From New York Times
The magazine’s alternative list includes Jacques Barzun’s “God’s Country and Mine,” described as “the definitive rejoinder to fashionable anti-Americanism,” and Evelyn Waugh’s “Scoop,” summed up as a “prophetically satiric novel about wars of liberation.”
From Washington Post
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