Peter MacTeague, president of Brewster College, is a right-wing Economist who once advocated allowing the sale of babies just like beer and soap. While pressing to make worship of free markets the college creed, as he was handpicked to do, he also launches a campaign for the Senate. Polls show him ahead in his effort to unseat one of the dying breed of Republican moderates by running to his right in the Maine primary on a platform that calls for abolishing the income tax. MacTeague's undoing begins late one night when some drunken students impulsively kidnap White, Brewster College's renowned...