Research Catalog

Title

Peter's people / by Laurence J. Peter ; illustrated by Matt Wuerker.

Author

Peter, Laurence J.

Publication

New York : Morrow, 1979.

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Additional Authors

Wuerker, Matt, 1956-

Description

223 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Presents comments about numerous well-known people of the past and present and provides a variety of laws and principles concerning the human condition.

Subject

• 1800 - 1999
• Biography > 19th century > Anecdotes
• Biography > 20th century > Anecdotes

Genre/Form

Anecdotes

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The pen is mightier -- Wilde kingdom -- A lover of words -- Abe Martin speaks -- Most of them never happened -- Secrets of success -- King of the one-liners -- More psycho than logical -- Maier's law -- Selecting a school counselor -- The twelve-word cure -- Slumbering inspiration -- The Meacham measurement -- Freud's great discovery -- Let me entertain you -- America's showman -- The gentle art of making enemies -- The full-blown talent of Le Petomane -- The cowboy philosopher -- And heeeere's Johnny -- A comedian for all seasons -- A woman's place -- No nose for success -- Three jeers for bureaucracy -- Winning the rat race without becoming a rat -- Take me to your leader -- Little strokes fell great oaks -- Was Nixon a victim of Peter Principle -- Too good for the job -- When in doubt, mumble -- Winning isn't everything -- Ten incompetents of 1970 -- The golden dinosaur awards -- Ideas whose time has come -- Voluntary simplicity -- A royal flush -- The government and other bulky objects -- The power of negative thinking -- Bureaucrats beware -- What's funny about that -- There ought to be a law -- Murphy's Laws -- Parkinson's Laws -- Peter's Principles -- Other laws from A to Z.

ISBN

0688034888

LCCN

^^^79012906^

OCLC

4933814

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library