Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, c1979.
Includes index.
Contents
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 -- 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 -- Henry Luce and the Time-Life-Fortune -- The prophets : Buckminster Fuller and Marshall McLuhan -- The professional : Alfred Sloan -- The Indian summer of innocence.
