The American establishment and other reports, opinions, and speculations / Richard H Rovere.

With hardcover

For Mark

Cont.: 1. The American establishment: The American establishment -- 2. Matters mainly of fact: The big hello -- En route with Truman and Dewey -- Mr. Morris goes to Washington -- The kept witnesses -- At a baize-covered table on the Isle of Rhodes -- 3. A few enthusiasms and hostilities: Holmes, J., Sage -- White Mountaineer -- The importance of George Orwell -- Arthur Hays Vandenberg: new man in the Pantheon -- Wilkie, another happy warrior -- The Interior Ickes -- The contrarieties of Ezra Pound -- Sidney Hillman, or the doctrine of good connections -- The wicked conspiracy against General MacArthur -- 4. Judgments reserved: Privacy and the claims of community -- The interlocking overlappers -and some further thoughts on the "power situation" -- Life and death and sentience -- The conscience of Arthur Miller -- Communists and intellectuals -- The dead red decade -- On political sophistication.