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Spring 1942

Spring 1942

Table of Contents

The Future of Industrial Man

This war is being fought over the structure of industrial society—its basic principles, its purposes, and its institutions. It has one issue, only one: the social and political order of the entirely new physical reality Western man has built up as his habitat since James Watt invented the steam engine almost two hundred years ago.

Essays

Poetry

Criticism

Author Profiles

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) was an internationally prominent writer, thinker, and management expert who published more than forty books. He created the concept known as management by objectives. From 1971 to 2002, Dr.

Robert Frost (1874–1963) was one of the leading American poets of the twentieth century and a frequent contributor to VQR.