This was originally published in the late 1970s, but among his 29
books it remains a business readers' favourite. It is usually
regarded as an autobiography. This, as Drucker points out, is not
strictly true. Adventures of a Bystander is a series of essays
covering many of the major events and figures of corporate history,
and Drucker acts as a narrator or 'bystander' who takes no part in
the action. Using his life to place these events and figures into
chronological perspective, Drucker describes his encounters with
individuals such as Alfred P Sloan (the creator of the modern
General Motors), Fortune's Henry Luce, Fritz Kraemer (mentor to the
young Henry Kissinger), the brilliant Buckminster Fuller and
Sigmund Freud. Most of the people Drucker has chosen reflect and
refract the 30 crucial years from the end of World War I to the
first decade of World War II - years which formed the world in
which we live today. Born in 1909, Drucker is one of the most
influential management thinkers of the 20th century and it is a
century he has immaculately observed and retold. With this book, he
demonstrates that he is not just a management guru, but a man with
great sympathy and interest in people, ideas and history. In all,
Adventures of a Bystander is a welcome change from his usual
excellent, ground-breaking analytical writing. (Kirkus UK)
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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