Bamboozled!

Ivan P. Hall, born on an American missionary college campus in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1932, received his B.A. in European History from Princeton, an M.A. in International Relations from the Fletcher School, and his PhD in Japanese History from Harvard in 1969. He is the author of Mori Arinori (1973) and Cartels of the Mind: Japan’s Intellectual Closed Shop (1997). The latter was chosen by Business Week as one of the “Ten Best Business Books of 1997.” Since 1999 he has been a visiting professor in Japanese history (pre-modern, modern, and intellectual) at Temple University of Japan in Tokyo.

• Part I Illusion: “On a Cloth Untrue”; Chapter one Economic Mirage; Chapter two Anti–Americanism; Chapter three New Old Right; Chapter four Limping Liberalism; Chapter five Pan-Asianism; Chapter six Samurai Ethic; Part ii Collusion: “With a Twisted Cue”; Chapter seven Special Pleading; Chapter eight Ostracism; Chapter nine Yen; Chapter ten Dollars; Chapter eleven Organization; Chapter twelve People; Part iii Self-Delusion: “And Elliptical Billiard Balls”; Chapter thirteen Gullible’s Travels; Chapter fourteen Roller Coaster; Chapter fifteen MacArthur Maxim; Chapter sixteen Reischauer Rubric; Chapter seventeen Number-Oneism; Chapter eighteen Brief Awakening; Chapter nineteen Dumbing Down; Chapter 101 Conclusion: The Punishment Fits the Crime;