New York: Cameron & Kahn, (1954.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An unorthodox novel about orthodoxy ... a comic and pungent dissection [of] such incidental phenomena as thought control in the McCarthy era, modern business ethics, racial intolerance" and more. By the third son of American author Ring Lardner, who was an Oscar-winning screenwriter, a member of the Hollywood Ten who was imprisoned for refusing to answer questions before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. 302 pp.