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to the latent literary curiosity of
many a student.
I say "student"-but I am well
aware how tactless and unsound
this allusion of mine is. In our own
circles we allude to the student as
little as possible, and then only in
embarrassed parentheses. Where,
in fact,
is
the student in this great
garishly-lighted suite of executive
offices, so beautifully equipped with
the shiny filing-cabinets of research
and investigation, and so imposing–
ly sonorous with the clattering type–
writer-keys of "publication," with
the buzzing telephone-bells of com–
mittee-work?
The student is not one of the
officers of the concern, after all; he
is not one of the employees, either,
skilled or unskilled, white-collar or
((A brilliant job both as a
historical study and as an
analysis of the nub-prob–
lem of bureaucracy."
-MAX
LERNER
((A vigorous and penetrat–
ing interpretation
...
writ–
ten with genuine insight
and sound critical judg–
ment. It must be read by
every serious student of
public administration and
comparative government."
- LEONARD
D.
WHITE
PARTISAN REVIEW
mechanical ; he is not one of our
competitors or one of our asso–
ciates. He really has no status in
the office at all-for the student, of
course, is that little-regarded figure,
the consumer. We are all familiar
with the attitude which the cap–
tains of free enterprise have al–
ways taken toward
him.
One some–
times wonders whether his plight
will ever be much happier than it
is until he organizes a consumers'
union of his own, and sets seriously
to work fingering, eyeing, sniffing,
and generally testing the sleazy
goods that are mainly palmed off
on him.
If
that time ever comes,
one suspects that the knell of the
managerial professor will have
struck. Meanwhile, he is enjoying
a bull market.
NEWTON ARVIN
Representative
Bureaucracy
An Interpretation of the
British Civil Service
--By
J.
DONALD KINGSLEY-–
A keen examination of the develop–
ment and the characteristics of
bureaucracy in today's middle class
State. The thesis is that the ad–
ministrative structure by which the
State is governed reflects the
dynamic class patterns in the State
itself. 324 pp. $3.50.
THE ANTIOCH PRESS
P. 0. BOX 148 YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO
