Barzun

[bahr-zuhn]

noun

1. Jacques (Martin), 1907–2012, U.S. historian, educator, and writer, born in France.

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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.

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Mr Harding launched Tortoise with the former US ambassador to the UK James Barzun.

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“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.

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The key to keeping one’s sanity, Mr. Barzun said, is not to worry about being in every critical meeting.

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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.”

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