Description
Book SynopsisThis is the author's autobiographical collection of stories and vignettes representing a social portrait of his life and times. He reflects and refracts the realities of interwar Europe, the New Deal years and America after the War.
Trade Review"Drucker's autobiography is a joy to read because of the mix of intriguing characters, momentous events and sharp insights we've come to expect from one of the most original management theorists."-Upside magazine
Table of ContentsPrologue: A Bystander Is Born.
REPORT FROM ATLANTIS.
Grandmother and the Twentieth Century.
Hemme and Genia.
Miss Elsa and Miss Sophy.
Freudian Myths and Freudian Realities.
Count Traun-Trauneck and the Actress Maria Mueller.
YOUNG MAN IN AN OLD WORLD.
The Polanyis.
The Man Who Invented Kissinger.
The Monster and the Lamb.
Noel Brailsford-The Last of the Dissenters.
Ernest Freedberg's World.
The Bankers and the Courtesan.
THE INDIAN SUMMER OF INNOCENCE.
Henry Luce and Time-Life-Fortune.
The Prophets: Buckminster Fuller and Marshall McLuhan.
The Professional: Alfred Sloan.
The Indian Summer of Innocence.
Index.
