Ebook: Adventures of a Bystander

Prologue : a bystander is born -- 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 -- Noel Brailsford : the last of the dissenters -- Ernest Freedberg's world -- The bankers and the courtesan -- Henry Luce and Time-Life-Fortune -- The prophets : Buckminster Fuller and Marshall McLuhan -- The professional : Alfred Sloan -- The indian summer of innocence.