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Unlike the hero of Truman Capote's The Grass Harp, Egan Fletcher Jr. does not live in a tree house. Home is what passes for a mansion in Kornelius-Above-the-Shoals, the Southern town where his grandfather owns the cotton mill. Egan lives there on the eve of World War II with his mother and sister, a 14-year-old in itchy jodhpurs...
Back in the 1920s when nearby Humble (as in oil company), Texas was enjoying the discovery of petroleum in the surrounding pastures, all the black people were pushed out of town. They gathered up their few belongings and came down the road to E. L. Borders's saw mill, at that time the only "equal opportunity employer" in the area. "Old Man" Borders, a wild-haired back-country white given to poaching lumber and drinking, ran the saw mill haphazardly for a few years, then folded during the Depression...
THIS DUO HARDLY SUFFERS the run of the mill depression destitution; they make it big off of everyone else's. They are cool, classy and successful, with enough self-confidence to tell anybody off. The American heartland is their arena for hustling and stealing. They sell Bibles to grieving widows, trade a five and four ones for a ten dollar bill, and steal a bootlegger's liquor to sell it back...
...foreign inflow has been generally well received by American businessmen, but hints of corporate xenophobia are cropping up. Last week U.S. steelmen, ignoring the enormous presence of American business round the world, began to grumble about the competition that they may face from an $18 million mini steel mill being built for a Japanese consortium in Auburn, N.Y. Yet the surge in direct foreign investment is a golden boon for the U.S. It will help offset the persistent deficit in the nation's balance of payments and provide new technology for the American economy. How do American workers shape...
IRVING KRISTOL is an avowed Straussian. Appropriating his mentor's complete rejection of subjectivist ethics and the standard liberal doctrines of Locke, Bentham, and Mill, he has descended into the intellectual arena with a biting forensic style to do battle with the fashionable sophists and nihilists who monopolize so much of public discussion today. He has become one of our most influential intellectuals as co-editor of the Public Interest, prolific contributor to various periodicals, and frequent advisor in government circles. His essays, eight of which are gathered in On the Democratic Idea in America, cover a wide range...