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Adventures of a Bystander

by Peter F. Drucker · 1979

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"Adventures of a Bystander" is Drucker's autobiographical collection of stories and vignettes that create a social portrait of his life and times. This personal and informal work portrays Drucker as a leader and thinker of infinite curiosity, imaginative, sympathetic, and enormously interested in people, ideas, and the forces behind them.

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thisbusinessbusinessMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of thismemoirmemoirMore like thisLess of thisself-helpself-helpMore like thisLess of this
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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
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medium · 352 pages

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