I bought this book when it came out: From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun. I've never read it, primarily because it hasn't fit in with any of the projects I've worked on over the past couple of years, but the next couple of weeks promise to be filled with long hours at the office and a parade of social commitments. I doubt I'll have much of a chance to work on anything worthwhile, so I'm going to dive into Barzun's magnum opus during the month of August. We'll see how it goes.
