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Adventures of a Bystander by Peter F Drucker, 356 pages. John Wiley & Sons, New York; 1998; $27.95.
The title of this book, Adventures of a Bystander, is too modest. Far from being a bystander, Peter Drucker has actively participated in much of what he writes about, crossing paths with many of the 20th century's intellectual elite. The book opens in 1923, with the 13-year-old Drucker carrying the red banner at the head of the Viennese Socialists' annual Republic Day march. This may seem like a strange place for today's...