This is the author's autobiographical collection of stories and vignettes representing a social portrait of his life and times. He reflects and refracts the realities of interwar Europe, the New Deal years and America after the War. He paints a picture of his life and memoirs from his childhood in Vienna. He tells of his meetings with Sigmund Freud, Henry Luce, Alfred Sloan, John Lewis, Marshall McMuhan and the other famous and unknown people who influenced him.