Author: Wilfrid Sheed Year: 1966 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Humor
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ISBNs: 9780671800482 9780929587097 0671800485 092958709X |
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The setting of Office Politics is the slightly worn-at-the-heels office of The Outsider, an influential journal of opinion with a small but dwindling circulation. When a sudden illness sends its dominating editor-in-chief, Gilbert Twining, into enforced retirement, the underground struggle among his editors to supplant him surfaces. The conflict is bitter because the stakes are so small. Everyone has his scheme and his day in the sun, and then, amidst this War of Succession, Twining returns...
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