America, Good and Bad: I. Power, Leadership, and Fear.

Americans are friendly and arrogant, generous and hard, democratic and anti-democratic, eager to hear about themselves and morbidly sensitive to unfavorable criticism, profoundly simple and extraordinarily complicated. There is a growing tendency in the federal government of the United States to create special agencies of an ad hoc character which are not directly related to the normal framework of administration and live by standards they themselves establish.