Volume 37, Number 7 · April 26, 1990
The Way We Live Now?
By Louis S. Auchincloss
Hanover Place
by Michael M. Thomas
Warner Books, 479 pp., $19.95
A Tenured Professor
by John Kenneth Galbraith
Houghton Mifflin, 197 pp., $19.95
Henry James used to bemoan the fact that he lacked the technical knowledge of American business with which to fill in the commercial careers of such of his characters as Christopher Newman in The American or Adam Verver in The Golden Bowl. But he needn't have worried. We sufficiently sense the lifetime obsession of that old goldbug, Abel Gaw, of The Ivory Tower in James's description of his answer to his daughter's inquiry if he is tired:
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