TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface; Prologue: A Bystander Is Born; REPORT FROM ATLANTIS; Grandmother and the Twentieth Century; Hemme and Genia; Miss Elsa and Miss Sophy; Freudian Myths and Freudian Realities; Count Traun-Trauneck and the Actress Maria Mueller; YOUNG MAN IN AN OLD WORLD; The Polanyis; The Man Who Invented Kissinger; The Monster and the Lamb; Noel Brailsford-The Last of the Dissenters; Ernest Freedberg's World; The Bankers and the Courtesan; THE INDIAN SUMMER OF INNOCENCE; Henry Luce and Time-Life-Fortune; The Prophets: Buckminster Fuller and Marshall McLuhan; The Professional: Alfred Sloan; The Indian Summer of Innocence; Index.