title: Grand Eccentrics: Turning the Century : Dayton and the Inventing of America (Ohio)
author:  Mark Bernstein 
description: <i>"Grand Eccentrics...</i> a delightfully entertaining six-way biography of men whose talents and vision fundamentally changed the world. Bernstein's subjects are a colorful (and sometimes just plain odd) collection of self-made individuals whose contributions were astounding. In <i>Grand Eccentrics </i>Bernstein offers a look back at a time of breathtaking change wrought by exceptional minds. RECOMMENDED."<br />-- Cleveland <i>Plain Dealer</i><br /><br />"Turn-of-the-century Dayton was an extraordinary place, filled with people who could exercise an enormous impact on the nation and the world. For those who doubt this, I recommend <i>Grand Eccentrics</i>, a fascinating account of an unconventional group who helped to shape the history of the 20th century."<br />-- Tom D. Crouch; Senior Curator, Aeronautics<br />  National Air and Space Museum<br /><br />"It's a wonderful book!... a tour de force."<br />Professor George Knepper [Author: <i>Ohio and Its People</i>]<br />University of Akron
zlib_text: IDIOTS IN PARIS
  Diaries of Elizabeth Bennett 
  and JG Bennett, 1949
  Bennett Books
  Santa Fe, New Mexico
  
  First American Edition published in 1991 by Red Wheel / Weiser, LLC
  First Bennett Books Edition 2008 
  Contains new material.
  Bennett Books
  PO Box 1553
  Santa Fe, NM 87504, USA
  ofBce@bennettbooks.org • www.bennettbooks.org 
  +1 505986-1428
  Copyright © 2008 The Estate of JG Bennett 
  All Rights Reserved
  Printed in the United States of America 
  11 10 09 08 
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  cover design Roberta Duce
  books design AM Services
  cover photo © 2008 Dushka Howarth
  Library of Congress Cataloging in-Publication Data 
  Bennett, John G. (John Godolphin), 1897-1974.
  Idiots in Paris : diaries ofJG Bennett and Elizabeth Bennett, 1949. 
  — 1st Bennett Books ed.
  p. cm.
  ISBN 978-1-881408-20-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  1. Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949. 2. Bennett John G. (John 
  Godolphin), 1897-1949—^Diaries. 3. Bennett, Elizabeth, 1918—Diaries. I. 
  Bennett, Elizabeth, 1918- II. Title.
  B4249.G84B464 2008
  197—dc2