Peter Drucker's lively and thoughtful memoirs are now available in
paperback with a new introduction by the author. He writes with wit
and spirit about people he has encountered in a long and varied
life, including Sigmund Freud, Henry Luce, Alfred Sloan, John L.
Lewis, and Marshall McLuhan. After beginning with his childhood in
Vienna during and after World War I, Drucker moves on to Europe in
the 1920s and early 1930s, describing the imminent doom posed by
Hitler and the Nazis. He then goes on to describe London during the
1930s, America during the New Deal era, the World War II years, and
beyond. According to John Brooks of The New York Times Book Review,
"Peter Drucker is at a corner cafe, delightfully regaling anyone
who will listen with tales of what must be one of the more
varied-and for a practitioner of such a narrow skill as that of
management counseling, astonishing-of contemporary professional
lives." Dorothy Rabinowitz of the Washington Post writes, "The
famous are here as well as the infamous.... All are the
beneficiaries, for better or for worse, of Drucker's unerring eye
for psychological detail, his remorseless curiosity, and his
imaginative sympathy.... Drucker's book appears in a stroke to have
restored the art of the memoir and of the essay." Adventures of a
Bystander reflects Drucker's vitality, infinite curiosity, and
interest in people, ideas, and the forces behind them. His book is
a personal and informal account of the rich life of an independent
man of letters, a life that spans eight decades and two continents.
It will be of interest to scholars and professionals in the
business world, historians, sociologists, and admirers of Peter
Drucker.
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