From Peter Drucker (11 October 1943)

[…] [59] I realized that when I read the list of editors and associate editors of the Economists since 1843. In the mood in which I have been these last few weeks, this list reds like the family-tree I would like to have - the one which I would pick out were family trees one's for the picking. And I'd take it entire; though I would, on general principles object against Herbert Asquith - even in that mellow mood of a late reincarnation of the lamented Lord Morley in which I write -, I feel that I'd have to include him on the principle that every good family tree nowadays should contain a non-aryan grandmother for which the role he is admirably fitted. But even the Asquith mesalliance is really i the tradition for which I have been yearning. And it comes as a shock to realise that these names which to me are almost contemporary - surely not older than the Deutsche or the Oesterreichische Volkswirt, for instance, and thus integral parts of whatever education I have - should be meaningless and dead to the people who grow up today. You may say that this only shows that I am a European; but I think these names and all they stand for, are as dead in Madrid, Amsterdam or Prague - not to mention Oxford and Cambridge - as the are on the campus of Bennington College.

All this is by way of introduction to an answer to your letter;

[60] Lippman [61] [62]

Letter Informations

Reference:
KPA: 47/13, 59-62