6. A short guide to great wealth. How to make a nation -- People and dogs -- Believing in books -- Sex happiness for absolutely everybody -- Don't call me: the telephone -- The prison -- The private left eye -- The universe and Buckminster Fuller -- 2. Social astonishments: Diamond necklace, The affair of the -- Herod's Christmas -- The end of slavery? -- Bloodbath for Black Africa -- Report on the juggernaut -- Our ephemeral civilization -- The tragic entertainer -- 3. Survival: Survival in the zoo -- Survival everywhere -- Survival in the White House -- Cigarettes, cancer and the campus -- Reducing ad absurdum -- 4. Non-athletic activities: The crossword addict -- In search of Athens, U.S.A. -- Face-lifting the Giants -- A defense of Time, Inc. -- The "New Yorker" hick -- 5. Escape: All that space -- Flying saucery -- 6. A little extra advantage: Women and power -- Water and despotism -- The communist performance -- Virtue triumphs, very late -- Interview with 213 bank robbers -- The case of the overexposed dynasty -- A short guide to great wealth.
Summary:
Essays on contemporary American life reprinted from various magazines.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)282360
LCCN:
63022800
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)
PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)
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