Volume 33, Number 6 · April 10, 1986
Behind the Wall
By John Kenneth Galbraith
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
Iacocca
by Lee Iacocca, with William Novak
Bantam, 352 pp., $19.95
Iacocca
by David Abodaher
Zebra Books, 421 pp., $3.95 (paper)
Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman
by Ken Auletta
Random House, 253 pp., $19.95
The Great Getty: The Life and Loves of J. Paul Getty—Richest Man in the World
by Robert Lenzner
Crown, 283 pp., $18.95
At Any Cost: Corporate Greed, Women, and the Dalkon Shield
by Morton Mintz
Pantheon, 308 pp., $17.95
Nightmare: Women and the Dalkon Shield
by Susan Perry, by Jim Dawson
Macmillan, 261 pp., $16.95
Considering its importance in the community, we read and know relatively little about the inner social life of the modern great corporation. I have in mind the way its huge managerial, some would prefer to say bureaucratic, apparatus unites for the purposes of the enterprise, but divides and fights in accordance with the ambitions, beliefs, and personal likes, dislikes, antipathies, jealousies, and hatreds of those who live, indeed spend their lives, in close, inescapable juxtaposition.
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