Volume 24, Number 1 · February 3, 1977
Playboys
By Andrew Hacker
The Gamesman: The New Corporate Leaders
by Michael Maccoby
Simon & Schuster, 285 pp., $8.95
Back in the 1920s, Charles Beard called America a 'business civilization.' Is this still the case? Even today, most Americans spend their working lives in the employ of profit-making enterprises. Yet we lack anything like a literature on the subject. We have had no chroniclers like Balzac or Arnold Bennett. Dreiser's Frank Cowperwood is memorable mainly for his personal problems; whereas Lewis's Babbitt was a buffoon, and we saw Dodsworth only on holiday. About the only businessmen who can carry a plot are in advertising or entertainment. Our captains of steel, chemicals, finance are seldom very interesting people.
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