How I Beat Coca-Cola and Other Tales of One-Upmanship
ISBN: 9780299295035
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Wisconsin Press
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Carl Djerassi crafts a shrewd collection of comedies of manners, exposing the foibles of elite tribes--business executives, chefs, scientists, professors, musicians, and other clever characters. They spar in battles of one-upmanship using class, education, gender, or prestige as their weapons, sometimes leaving damaged bystanders in their wake but sometimes finding their superiority deflated by unexpected turns of events.

Carl Djerassi (1923-2015) was the author of many novels, plays, essays, poetry, and short stories published in twenty languages. Renowned as both a writer and a scientist, he was an emeritus professor of chemistry at Stanford University and the recipient of thirty honorary doctorates as well as many international scientific honors. His books published by the University of Wisconsin Press are: How I Beat Coca-Cola and Other Tales of One-Upmanship ; Foreplay: Hannah Arendt, the Two Adornos, and Walter Benjamin ; Sex in an Age of Technological Reproduction:? "ICSI" and "Taboos" ; and A Diary of Pique 1983-1984 / Ein Tagebuch des Grolls 1983-1984 .

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