EDITORIAL: The system is what it does: 70 years of ‘The Organization Man’

Back in the fall of 1956, exactly 70 years ago, William H. Whyte Jr.’s landmark book “The Organization Man” debuted. The nonfiction sociology study mirrored another parallel bestseller, Sloan Wilson’s fictional “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit,” which dates from the year before. That fictional book recounted the semi-autobiographical life of Tom and Betsy […]