ROBERT L. HEILBRONER is known as one of the most readable of economists and social critics. His first book, The Worldly Philosophers, a celebrated history of economics, is a standard introduction to economics in many colleges and universities. Later books, including The Future as History, The Great Ascent and Between Capitalism and Socialism, have also reached wide academic and general audiences. Dr. Heilbroner is Norman Thomas Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
COLMAN MCCARTHY is a reporter, essayist and editorial writer for the Washington Post and author of a forthcoming Houghton Mifflin book of profiles in social dissent. His series of Post articles revealing the dangerous condition of certain General Motors school buses—and GM’s callous treatment of the bus owners—was credited with helping bring about the recall of 4200 GM school buses across the nation.
MORTON MINTZ is co-author of the best-selling book America, Inc., and a reporter for the Washington Post. A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, Mintz is the journalist who broke the story of the baby-deforming sedative thalidomide, an achievement that won him the Heywood Broun, the Raymond Clapper and the George Polk memorial awards.
SANFORD J. UNGAR is a graduate of Harvard and the London School of Economics. He worked for United Press International during the unrest in France in 1968 and co-authored a book describing that unrest, The Almost Revolution. Now a reporter for the Washington Post, he is author of the forthcoming Dutton book The Papers and the Papers, an account of the legal and political battle over the Pentagon Papers. Mr. Ungar wishes to thank Morton Mintz for assistance in preparing his chapter.
KERMIT VANDIVIER is a reporter for the Troy (Ohio) Daily News, and his assignments have included a tour in Vietnam. He first participated in and then exposed the business scandal he recounts in this book.
SAUL FRIEDMAN is Washington correspondent for the Knight Newspapers. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and has been an investigative reporter since 1953.
JAMES BOYD is the executive director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism and a Contributing Editor of The Washington Monthly. In his book Above the Law, published in 1968, he told how, as administrative assistant to Senator Thomas Dodd, he helped lay bare the improprieties that led to Dodd’s censure by his fellow senators. He is now at work on a novel with a Washington setting for W. W. Norton & Co.
DAVID OBST, who conceived and coordinated this book, was a founder of Reporters News Service, whose series revealing the My Lai massacres won a Pulitzer Prize in 1970. Mr. Obst studied Chinese at the University of California and did graduate work in Taipei. He is editor of Ecotage (Simon & Schuster) and of the forthcoming Doubleday book A Television Viewer’s Guide to the News.