Autobiographical collection of stories and vignettes by the modern management guru, providing both a portrait of his life and the realities of interwar Europe, Roosevelt's New Deal years and post war America This 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. Prologue: 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.