The Boy Inside the American Businessman

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This is a socio-economic study of twentieth-century American literature that reveals why mainstream businessmen must either discipline, suppress, or kill boyish tendencies that collide with do-or-die codes of the American corporate psychostructure. Contents: Competition, Expectation, and the American Corporate Psyche, Life-or-Death Dealing: Dress and Behavior Codes in American Business, Against the Fires of Ilium: Vonnegut's Restless Engineer in Player Piano, The Catcher in the Rye: Irreconcilable Tension in Salinger's Peter Pan, The Boy Inside the Salesman: 'Tired to the Death' in Miller's Death of A Salesman, Rabbit in the Showroom: Healthy, Wealthy, and No Place Left to Run, The Boy Inside Bob Slocum: The Ambiguity of 'Death' by 'Asphyxiation' in Heller's Something Happened, The Boy Inside the Banker, A Concluding Interview.