The Mandarin Syndrome: The Secret Life of Senior Bureaucrats

Maurice Henrie pins the top-level bureaucrat, wriggling and squirming, to the pages of this revealing book, and proceeds to dissect him with unerring accuracy. The bureaucrat's complacent self-image is exposed, his desires are revealed, his habits are analyzed. Henrie describes with wit and daring what many of us have observed but no one else has put into words.